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When Dennis O’Brien complained this week that he was not getting a fair hearing in the Dial he was overlooking the fact that he owns the bulk of the reporting media in the country! What still lies beyond his control is the voice of an independent member of parliament who, in what’s left of our […]

The Latin word for ‘unconquered’ was the title given to the poem by the author’s editor. The poem was written 140 years ago, by William Ernest Henley. It runs to four stanzas and has survived because it is so quotable portraying, as it does, the indomitable human spirit. It caught my eye this week when […]

The good ship Ireland has veered away from the convoy of nations and headed out into the choppy waters all by herself. She flies a number of flags but for now the most prominent of them is the rainbow colours of the Gay community. The crew seem to be working in pairs not couples as […]

It’s not only the bluebells that are coming out this Spring but the covert ‘Gay’s’ who are publishing their stories. The repetitive nature of these accounts does nothing to dull their poignancy. They are increasing in number in this latter phase of the Referendum campaign. Emotions are running high as the abnormal sees its goal […]

Election in a real democracy is a wonderful thing. In it bullet points, rather than bullets fly at the opposing parties. Even when rhetoric outstrips reason in the speeches opportunities for public engagement abound and no one is immune from a verbal drubbing. Ballot boxes are sealed and each vote is cast in secret. Polling […]

This week the finishing touches were put to a statement from our Leinster Pastors on the controversial subject of same-sex ‘marriage’. It will be distributed this coming week, in good time for the planned Referendum on the 22nd May. With SSM now legal in the UK (but not N Ireland) and gay unions being recognised […]

In this decade of remembering anniversaries the Armenian one, which was commemorated this week, almost escaped our attention. Indeed it is not an easy task to find Armenia on the map, tucked in between Turkey on the West and Kurdistan on the East and having Russia and Syria as neighbours on the other borders. It […]

Once upon a time you could tell when the tourist season started by the queue of Wallace Arnold busses that blocked Nassau Street! Nowadays its different tourist’s fly and motor in at a great rate. Thanks to the allure of our advertisers many come bound for the “Wild Atlantic Way”. Ireland has been slow to […]

Hullo, this is supposed to be a blog not a session on the psychiatrist couch! But the papers are full of this stuff. The gender-benders are out in force. “Your identity”, they say, “is a social construct”! By which they mean you can choose to be male or female. It’s not as if we hadn’t […]