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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Barack Obama talks in Dublin on Friday - at a price

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Former US president, Barack Obama is speaking in Dublin next Friday . The event is sold out, with only resale tickets available; prices ra...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Cardinal Timothy Dolan likens Charlie Kirk to St Paul

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Catholic archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on his Facebook account about the late Charlie  Kirk: " Charlie Kirk was...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

UK PM seems to speak out of both sides of his mouth

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Former US diplomat Richard Haass on the occasion of Donald Trump ’s state visit to the UK said that the British see The US president not ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Bad habits are hard to break

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Anyone who is out and about in Dublin city, especially at the busy commuter hours will know the law of the jungle rules. I cycle to and from...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Catholic priest suggests we ban non-Christian migrants

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper . Michael Commane The murder last week of Charlie Kirk has been condemned by all right-thinking...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Doffing the hat never seems to go out of date

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From the Guardian . How people and institutions always doff the hat at the great and powerful. West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Han...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Governor Spencer Cox spouts dangerous words

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The governor of Utah Spencer Cox said about the murder of Charlie Kirk : ' I was praying that if this had to happen here, it wouldn’t b...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Pope Leo tells of being attacked while visiting Dublin

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In 2019 Pope Leo, then Bishop Robert Prevost recounted an incident, which happened him on a Dublin street before 2005. He spoke of the attac...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Open at Doonbeg won’t help image of a sport labelled elitist

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Justine McCarthy’s piece in The Irish Times yesterday is worth a read. Rory McIlroy was searching for the words, though he had no need of th...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Canon Kilcoyne speaks a language of hatred and despair

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Below is a clip of a talk given by Fr Brendan Kilcoyne, suggesting only Christian migrants be allowed into Ireland. He uses nasty, disparagi...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

'The Prince of Darkness' is back in the news

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We are now learning that the Peter Mandelson UK ambassador to the US , Peter Mandelson had a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.  Dur...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

A garda superintendent does a good job

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This week’s column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane Last Christmas a former colleague and I found a middle-age man living in under...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

‘Not a chum of the PM but champion of the party'

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Not good days for the Labour Party in England . A year ago many people hoped for a different UK . Yes, there have been some developments bu...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Pope Leo realises first you have to listen

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From the Sunday Independent yesterday. It’s a lovely piece of writing by Colum McCann, positive too, and leaves the reader with hope and tru...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Differing views on driving the new electric buses

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Dublin Bus has now a significant number of electric buses in its fleet. The mirrors have been replaced with cameras and monitors in the driv...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

China is on the march - in every respect

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I can still remember my mother talk about the fear of the Yellow Peril. It is a racist expression describing the people of Asia. I was remin...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Workplace stress can add to mental health issues

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An interesting article from The Irish Times. Employee assistance programmes are becoming more popular because they represent win-win measure...