The Election Campaign is in full-swing this week as posters are being fixed to every lampost possible of the candidates, a few ugly ones, I might add! Now, I’ve never been politically minded and will quite openly admit that I’ve only ever voted in my teens when I was ‘taken’ to the [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Going Green
May 1, 2007Friday Funny
March 22, 2007George W. Bush’s Intelligence Quiz While visiting England, George W. Bush is invited to tea with the Queen. He asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to surround herself with intelligent people. He asks how she knows if they’re intelligent. “I do so by asking them the right questions,” [...]
MORE POLITICAL THAN EVER!
August 20, 2006To Kill an American You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the [...]
ON HER SOAP BOX AGAIN!
August 19, 2006Enter here he who dares!
BATTLE OF THE BOYNE
July 12, 2006Today, tens of thousands of Orangemen and supporters are set to attend Northern Ireland’s Twelfth of July parades. The largest demonstration of the day will be in Belfast and there will be 17 main venues across six counties. The Independent Orange Order demonstration will be in Portrush in County Antrim. Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams [...]
MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY
July 1, 2006I have just spent 24 hours in an Irish hospital with my son. I thought the British National Health was in a mess! I entered Tallaght Hospital in Dublin at 3.30pm on Thursday, made my way down to Childrens A&E and was horrified to see the rows of patients on trolleys. One or two looked a [...]
BRIAN MEEHAN
June 28, 2006Yesterday, Brian Meehan began his appeal against his conviction for the murder of Veronica Guerin. http://www.thefilmfactory.co.uk/vguerin/story.html I dont watch many films, but this one was brilliant.
1916 EASTER RISING
June 26, 2006Father Joe Mallin I am, by marriage, related to Michael Mallin. He, of the Easter Rising fame. http://www.1916rising.com/ He was my husbands great-grand-uncle. Michael Mallins son, Father Joe Mallin visited the family home recently. He was home from Hong Kong where he has preached for the past 50 years. Father Mallin visits Dublin whenever there [...]
The Presidents only fan!
June 25, 2006A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks. He asked, “What are all those clocks?” St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth get’s a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move.” “I see,” [...]
