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AN intriguing death notice in The Irish Times recently announced the death of Michael John de Clare Studdert (78), who died in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. A former Church of England curate, ex-lieutenant in the British Army Ordnance Corps and a millionaire, Studdert was the son of Venerable Augustine John de Clare Studdert. But there was… Read more »

THE Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) has had various differences in the last few years as its membership has increased in this secular age. Guest speakers at HAI gatherings, such as Ruth Dudley Edwards on the right and left-wing feminist Ailbhe Smyth, indicate the political bear pit that the movement can sometimes resemble. And four… Read more »

THE received wisdom purveyed by the ‘serious’ media is that garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s resignation was a ‘stroke of luck’ for Leo Varadkar and that his government had nothing at all, at all to do with her surprise resignation. But a reading of the Sunday Business Post just hours before O’Sullivan resigned indicates that once… Read more »

BUSINESSMAN Declan Ganley was barely off social media last week, sending numerous tweets about the George Hook situation at Newstalk, railing against the PC brigade and the “corporate bullying” of the sponsors who threatened to withdraw their advertising lolly. Ganley said he would no longer be directing business towards Maldron or Clayton hotels, a desperate… Read more »

WILL Bono pen another hymn to Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, pilloried for standing over her government’s brutal persecution of the Rohingya people, described as ethnic cleansing by many commentators? WILL Bono pen another hymn to Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, pilloried for standing over her government’s brutal persecution of the Rohingya people,… Read more »

DURING 2017, exceptional weather conditions have caused widespread destruction in many parts of the globe. In Donegal between 7-9pm on 22nd of August, a “once in a hundred year” type downpour caused massive destruction on the Inishowen Peninsula, but where was the Irish Air Corps? The simple answer is sitting on the tarmac in Baldonnell…. Read more »

WHISTLEBLOWER Paul Hopkins, who learned his trade with the Irish Defence Forces, in particular, the elite, special forces Army Rangers Wing (ARW) has been telling the British media of his dirty tricks on behalf of British American Tobacco. Hopkins spilled the beans when telling how he facilitated BAT payments to cripple anti-smoking laws in various… Read more »

WHAT’S to become of loyalist terrorist groups? They haven’t gone away you know. On the other hand, while they have lost their self-appointed role as defenders of Unionists against republicans they have not been able to acquire the role they crave, to be the mirror image of Sinn Féin, recognised legitimate representatives of working-class Unionist… Read more »