Occasional Scribbles

This from the Guardian is worth reading. An excerpt from the link:  When asked how Gorbachev should have responded to the war, Sergei Truba,...

Below is a link to an interview of three BBC journalists with RMT boss Mick Lynch. Lynch makes perfect sense and the three journalists ask r...

President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the funeral of former  General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR and later Preside...

The world has paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday. When Gorbachev arrived in Berlin to celebrate the 4oth anniversary of t...

On the evening of August 31, 1939 Germany made a false flag attack on the Polish radio station at Gleiwitz. It was the excuse they used to s...

This week’s INM/Mediahuis Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane I’m forever wondering how the world holds together. I’m forever...

The total amount of wrongly claimed Pandemic Unemployment Payments claimed at the height of the pandemic runs at €34 million. The Government...

The Irish Catholic columnist Mary Kenny has a story in the current issue of that paper about how Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán is en...

Imagine if when nazi thugs came to remove people from their homes the neighbours had said, no you can’t do that, what would have happened? W...

On this day, August 26 , 1999 Russia began the Second Chechen War. It was in response to the invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic Internation...

This is an article from groundreport. This blog cannot guarantee the veracity of the content. It sounds somewhat strange or odd. It’s about ...

On this day, August 24, 1941 Hitler announced the cessation of the systematic killings of mentally ill people. The decision came about as a ...

This week’s INM/Mediahuis Irish regional newspapers’ column Michael Commane Having scored a point from a difficult angle early in the game I...

Arya Dugina, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow on Saturday. She is the 30-year-old daughter of Alexander Dugin. NPR's Ayesha ...

Below are the Soviet anthems of 1944 and 197 7 and the Russian Federation anthem of 2000 The anthem that was adopted after the dissolution o...

On this day, August 20, 1991 over 100,000 people demonstrated outside the parliament building in Moscow protesting at those supporters who w...

More disturbing and horrifying news from the war in Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/un-chief-presidents-zelenskiy-erdo...

The link below is a fascinating story about a Russian soldier who fought in Ukraine and has now spoken out in protest against the war. Truth...

Last evening Germany’s public broadcaster ZDF television aired on its Frontal programme a story of a Russian oil tanker transferring oil to ...

Listry 2-15 Castlegregory 0-14 That’s the result in the first round of the Kerry Junior Premier Football Championship Group 4 game played in...

The West Kerry GAA team Castlegregory played Fossa in a Cham[ionship game yesterday in Castlegregory. The two Clifford brothers of All-Irela...

This appears in the current issue of The Tablet.  Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby admitted a fresh impetus is required to escape the p...

The Thinking Anew column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane One afternoon in west Kerry in early August I stopped my motorbike to tal...

Since Monday evening many homes in the West Kerry village of Castlegregory have been without terrestrial television.  RTE 1 is the station m...

This is a lovely story of a young Garda jumping into the Liffey to save an unconscious man. She took off her utility belt and stab jacket, a...

On Monday and Tuesday evening Irish terrestrial television in parts of West Kerry went on the blink. The dropout seemed to include RTE 1, RT...

This week’s IMU/Mediahuis Irish regional  newspapers’ column. Michael Commane The wife of President Michael D Higgins, Sabina Higgins’ comme...

On this day, August 8, 1974 US President Richard Nixon announced in a nationwide address that he was resigning from the office of the presid...

According to the most recent figures available there are 202,000 licensed guns in the State, meaning four guns per  100 people or one gun fo...

China Taiwan; Russia Ukraine; fires burn around the world; frightening floods in places which have never experienced such catastrophes. Beca...

On this date, August 5, 1940 the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. For the entire lifespan of the Soviet Union the West apportioned blame to comm...