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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Anthony Morris OP, RIP

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Dominican priest Anthony Morris died today in Summerville Nursing Home, Strandhill, Co. Sligo. May he rest in peace. Obituary to follow. 

Chinese citizen jailed for eight years on subversion charges

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From the Guardian newspaper last week. A story that tells the story of what happens people in China who oppose the government. If this story...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Adidas: that unYeezy feeling

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Because of Adidas’s break with disgraced rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, the company has €1.2bn worth of unsold and unsaleable Yeez...
Friday, May 12, 2023

A special day to thank our nurses

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  Today is International Nurses Day. Well done and thank you to all our dedicated nurses who bring such kindness, help and professionalism t...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

What’s in a name?

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The Polish government has decided to rename the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.  On Wednesday, Poland’s development minister, Waldemar Buda, sa...

Opposition, nonconformity, freedom in art keeps us safe

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Yesterday across Germany May 10, 1933 was remembered. It was on May 10, 1933 that the German Student Union ceremoniously burned books that w...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

As war grinds on Russia is becoming a cultural wasteland

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From yesterday’s Guardian. The piece paints a profoundly sad picture of what is happening in the wonderful land of Russia. What one man can ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Crisscrossing Germany by rail for only €49

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This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’column. Michael Commane Over the years I’ve travelled here and there. I lived in Italy a...
Monday, May 8, 2023

When there’s no substance mystique fills the gap

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"The less substance there is to any political institution, the more it must play up its own mystique. “British greatness has become a m...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Children are children and not young goats

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Why have we moved away from calling young people children and are now calling them kids? Is a kid not a young goat? Have children had any in...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

The travelling Irish and their large carbon footprints

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If close to 400,000 people flew in or out of Dublin Airport over the May Bank Holiday Weekend, the majority of them under 50, how concerned ...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Many Russians victory day parades are cancelled

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From the Guardian. The war in Ukraine must surely sully the memory of what Russia did in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany. https://www.th...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Dublin City Council talking out of both sides of their mouth

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Approximately one kilometre of Orwell Road, the section nearest Zion Road and Marianella in Dublin 6, is being resurfaced.  A spokesman for ...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The day that Ireland was divided by Britain

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On this day, May 3, 1921 Ireland was partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Sout...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Neither notes nor coins and no winning Lotto number

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This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane Earlier this month I wrote a column about how difficult it can ...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

Dmitry Medvedev calls for the return of all the old lands

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This is a May Day message from Dmitry Medvedev, an  ally of Vladimir Putin, and currently deputy chair of the Security Council  " Serio...

Pope Francis works for peace behind the scenes

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An interesting story about the diplomacy of Pope Francis. Pope departs Hungary pleading for peace in Ukraine, warning against isolationism  
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Germany introduces the €45 nationwide travel ticket

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DB, Deutsche Bahn, German Railway in conjunction with the German state is about to introduce a monthly nationwide cheap ticket on all state-...
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Friday, April 28, 2023

The strange worlds of Tucker Carlson and Rupert Murdoch

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 From yesterday’s Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/why-tucker-carlson-fired-fox?CMP=share_btn_link

Germany falls well short in honouring housing programme

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On the Markus Lanz programme on German ZDF public broadcaster television on Wednesday it was stated that  Olaf Scholz on being elected Germa...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Might China prove honest broker on Russian Ukraine war?

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An interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian on the hour-long talk between China and Ukraine. China is to send a peace talks delegation to...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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Every week I deliver my recyclable rubbish to a Dublin City Council bring bank. Some members of the staff are extremely funny. On occasion a...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Negotiating my way through poorly designed hospitals

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This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane Often when I visit a hospital I come away saying to myself that...
Monday, April 24, 2023

The Russians and the Ottomans, the Irish and the British

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On this day, April 22, 1877 the Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire. The Russians were victorious, but in a fashion as the gai...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Fox News pays a heavy price for downright lies

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The Dominion Voting  Systems has settled  a defamation legal case with Fox News. Fox News claimed the US presidential election was rigged ag...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

The signs of the times

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The Thinking Anew column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane  On Easter Wednesday I had a medical appointment in a large Dublin teachi...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Ukraine’s rail network in a time of war

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This makes for a lovely read about the trials, tribulations and relief experienced by the people of Ukraine as they travelled and travel acr...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Computer crash means cancellation of exam for students

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Students in the German state of North Rhine Westfalia were due to sit their final school examination (Abitur) in biology yesterday. The exam...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Remembering the brave Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto

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On this day, April 19, 1943 the brave people in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German troops who entered the Ghetto to round up the r...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Will our democratic system collapse into chaos?

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This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane Is democracy reaching its sell by date? I can imagine that intr...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

A slaughterhouse called school

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Writing about what school was like for his contemporaries in the early 20th century George Orwell writes in his novel ‘Coming Up for Air...
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