Occasional Scribbles

In the RTÉ 1 main evening Monday news a journalist reporting on the current Ukraine peace talks said: “ between he and Mr Putin ”. The da...

Below is a link to an interview with Brenda Fricker , which was re-aired on the Brendan O’Connor Show on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday morning. ...

Making history for this blog; the third successive post quoting from a pope. But this surely is worth mentioning. While the man might be ski...

Interesting words from Pope Leo on Christmas Day. Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon yesterday, in...

Pope Leo XIV, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Peter the Prince of the Apostles, Primate of Ital...

Happy and peaceful season of Christmas to all readers of Occasional Scribbles. This blog first saw daylight in June 2007. It’s read on all c...

This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane I overheard a young woman at a rail station on Monday morning talking to someo...

On this day, December 23, 1945 all attempts to relieve the embattle German troops at Stalingrad were abandoned. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov...

Last week   US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the strikes in Syria targeted  "ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons site...

On this day, December 22, 1989 the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin was reopened. It heralded the coming together of millions of Germ...

From the BBC website The Vatican has announced that Richard Moth will be the new Archbishop of Westminster , making him the head of the Cat...

December 20 is celebrated as International Human Solidarity Day , a UN observance promoting unity in diversity, and marks cultural events li...

Bishop Hicks From RTÉ News Pope Leo XIV has replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announ...