
Neil DL
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Neil DL
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Politics, History, Jazz & Blues, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis & Sailing.........it’s later than you think 🎶





Rights groups said the trio, who included a teenager who had taken part in international wrestling competitions, were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture. l.euronews.com/H30Z

Some of the nastiest posts I’ve seen on this site have been of non-Irish people (especially left-wing Americans) ridiculing Dolores for writing an ‘anti IRA’ song. Leaving aside the fact that it was an anti-violence song against both the provos and British forces, I can’t think of a more deeply human refrain than ‘it’s not me, it’s not my family’ in response to a terrorist group murdering two children in our name. Sadly that empathy across borders is far too uncommon. It’s even more uncommon amongst people who watch conflicts from afar as a sport.



"I am not much of a mingler. Give me a cup of decaf tea and a good book over a crowd of starry-eyed, spangled, mannerless politicos any day. "So, I feel a degree of sympathy for Emma Little-Pengelly, who is flying the flag for the north today with Trump, while her counterpart, Michelle O’Neill, once again sidesteps the hard yards. "Shinners have stated that her non-attendance is due to the US’s alliance with Israel. How noble." Read Máiría Cahill: tinyurl.com/mtu9vmpn




Fair play to you for brining supplies to Cuba and opposing the embargo. When you're there - might I suggest you call for the restoration of free speech, free assembly and a free press followed by real multi-party elections. Cubans haven't been allowed to elect their own Government since 1948 - oppressed first by Batista and his supporters and then the Castros with the help of theirs. If the England had imposed an embargo on Ireland, it would not have been an excuse trample on our rights and freedoms in Ireland and the US embargo is not an excuse to do so to Cubans.




Sadly we have a shameful history of duplicitous, corrupt leaders in Ireland. The way this man lies though is on another level. A knowing abject lie said in a tone of "And how dare you even bother me with the question".

















