Occasional Scribbles

There are two links here; the first one is the Google biography of Dmitry Muratov, the one below it is BBC's Steve Rosenberg interview w...

On this day, August 13, 1961 the government of the German Democratic Republic constructed a wire fence/barrier/wall dividing Berlin in two; ...

This week's column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael  Commane “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that ...

A Dublin Bus double decker vehicle went on fire  in service in Donnybrook today. Fortunately, all passengers and driver were able to leave t...

Interesting  article by Joe Humphreys in The Irish Times yesterday. William Desmond was a novice in the Irish Dominican Province; he began t...

Mentioning God or God's name should always carry with it a certain seriousness or profundity. It's a name that is so easily abused. ...

Link below is well worth a read; it's from the Global Catholic. https://www.globalcatholic.com /an-american-pope-at-the-borde r/

This blog has heard from a reliable source that the free-sheet, The Key, a publication of the Irish Dominican Friars is ceasing publication ...

BBC Radio 4's Sideways programme on Wednesday morning featured an interview with Dr Kate Bowler. She is a Canadian academic and writer w...

When Pope Leo was in Spain earlier this year he visited a prison in Barcelona. Below are some extracts from what he said when speaking with ...

This week's column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane On Thursday a young woman with two children passed me on the street; I ima...

Last March two weeks into the Iran war US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth  said that US attacks had “destroyed” Iran’s military and air defen...

This is well worth a read. Pope to Cardinal Simoni: No prison can separate a person from God's love - Vatican News: https://share.google...

Today is European Holocaust Day, honouring the memory of the thousands of Roma and Sinti women, men, and children who were persecuted and m...

Lara Marlowe's column in The Irish Times on Friday. This blog has been a supporter of the rock group Pussy Riots since 2013. Maria Alyok...

 Fr Thomas S O Floinn, second back row, third from left. Tehran, 1970. Tomás Simeon O Floinn was born in Rathdowney, Co Laois in 1944, where...