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Friday, June 20, 2025

Liar liar on the wall

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Canadian academic Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has attacked the multi-billion race to develop the techno...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Former German head spy new ambassador to the Holy See

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  It’s often said that the Holy See/Vatican has the best secret service in the world; it has a network of priests who span the world. Yester...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Make sure to check carefully all your service bills

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane Regular readers of this column may remember I wrote some weeks back about my t...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

What on earth Is an indulgence?

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The word indulgence has been mentioned many times during this Holy  Year. The bishops have sent out letters to various bodies, including cha...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

A powerful example of how we are damaging Mother Nature

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  Well worth a watch: See this Instagram video by @wisdom.keepers:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKxFg-Lot-K/?utm_source=ig_web_button_sha...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Killing has moved from Gaza to Iranian cities

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Is it wise to keep in touch with news these days? Where are we heading? Yesterday politicians assassinated in the US, Trump has his big mili...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

From Newfoundland to Galway in one long hop

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On this day, June 14, 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. They flew from St John’s Newfoun...
Friday, June 13, 2025

US Bishop Robert Barron makes too many glib comments

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US Bishop Robert Barron in an interview with Tucker Carlson said: ‘Friends, it’s no coincidence that the Church’s sex abuse scandals spiked ...

Trump wants to make America hate again

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Michael McDowell’s column in The Irish Times yesterday, a good read. Back in my youth we were taught in Latin class about the problems faced...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

A tale of either one or four tails

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On RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said that there was only one cadaver dog on the island of Ireland; he went on to s...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Our journey of faith is an exciting adventure

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane As a result of last week’s column on the feasts of Easter a reader contacted m...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber fly in the face of safety rules

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Anyone who cycles in any urban area in Ireland knows the pest and danger of Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber cycles are to all of us. It has got...
Monday, June 9, 2025

The barbarity of how the US kills convicted criminals

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 This is an interesting story about Sunny Jacobs who was found dead with he carer Kevin Kelly in Galway last Tuesday,  The piece is in the w...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Speaking to girl from Kharkiv before the bombs hit

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Late Friday early Saturday morning the Russian Army launched a major attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. On Friday morning I chatted to...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Russia is at war with Britain, US is no longer a reliable ally

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From yesterday’s Guardian and well worth a read. We are living in perilous times. Fiona Hill always speaks wise words; needs our ears. https...
Friday, June 6, 2025

All smiles in public for Friedrich Merz in White House

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History never ceases to surprise but do we ever listen? Yesterday, newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited US President Donal...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

When great words are spoken one simply has to listen

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These are truly inspiring words. Abraham Verghese addressing Harvard students. https://youtu.be/m45Lqo5rUyQ?si=lBIzArww_kDxfbvr
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

It’s so easy to play the religious game

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane I have been causally watching what the commentators are saying about new Pope ...