It’s A Boy
The cynical switching of the media on the refugee crisis from keep them out to let them in after the photogenic image …
Strangers Scorn Us For Being What We Are
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way. They scorned us just for bein’ what we are. But they …
Charleston Yesterday and Today
God be with the days when it was but a dance When you thought of Charleston, in newsreels, Of crazy steps of …
They Came, They Voted, Ireland Changed
They came by boat, they came by plane They went by busses, I got the train They registered to vote who never …
Coffin Ships of the Modern Age
Its just news, another raft or ship Upended, people struggling drowning Bodies, lined up on the shore Other unknown, uncared, unaccounted for. …
Why Im voting YES for Gay Marriage – Thank God for the Gays for reminding us what Marriage and Life is About
Gays at last are getting people off their back, and in one of the few government initiatives I’m supporting along with wind …
Why Cheap Laughs Come at a Cost
Much is made of the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons. I remember the issue when it first broke in Denmark, and thought …
Twelve Mourned as Two Thousand are Forgotten
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic ~ Josef Stalin Millions marched – a …
Je Suis Ahmed, Charlie, Moi
The tragic shooting in France does not make all Moslems evil no more than a UVF shooting or the antics of the …
Walking Past Adamnans Church in Birr
Its just another ruined church to some, but St Brendans Old Church in Birr is where a little known Irish saint wrote …
Jumping the Broom
Men of cloth forbidden to love Have of love between others much to say Only a girl and a boy, they think, …
Christ Was Crucified In Dublin
As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the Dáil The least …
Marching for Water in Tullamore
Rain falls from where some denied it falls Washed the streets over which protesters calls Echos to where the water falls from: …
Life Itself For Sale
The water we drink is up for sale That falls free from the sky The frackers for profit pollute the groundwater Its …
Just Doing Our Job
The most farcical part of the attempted shut down of Banagher fair, was when John Boy Dolan got cautioned for selling HENS… …
Innocence Died a Thousandth Death
She was the first of the age of innocence, The hundredth overall, Daily her father grieving Came to talk to her on …
Bang
Bang!, and your dead, Hands raised? Unseen. You did not comply, sorry you had to die… Wouldn’t have happened if home you …
Only The Birds Fly Free – Mahnaz Mohammadi
After the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s, the street the British Embassy was on was renamed after him (Bobby …
No Room at the Inn
She died alone, like a cow in a field, the papers wrote Nothing new there, comment passed as true as it was …
Ferryman and His Fare
Again, this is from a pro life point of view, and not intended to provoke a debate on the choice argument and …