The Flag
Poem written when two girls from up Ulster way came to my flat and saw a tricolour in dislay in the corner. …
Toddling Along to the Polling Booth
Yesterday, Enda Kenny told Paul Murphy to “toddle along” to Irish water to find answers to his questions, showing utter contempt for …
Forgotten Famine in a Free State
1916 – A Broken Dream by 1926 The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration …
Stopped Clocks and All That – The Kildare Street Standoff and Merrion Square Rollover – right2water Dec 10 protests
Beyond the wire A photo posted by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Dec 12, 2014 at 8:05am PST Kevin Higgins is a writer …
Being the Embarrassing Relations
Embarrassing relations – we all have them ! You put them upstairs, or in a back room So they are not seen, …
Warning to Politicians
Where fear drove comfort out; straw on the floor Was price of conquering security. “A Warning to Conquerors” – Donagh MacDonagh We …
Christmas Card to the Homeless
Every homeless person is something to somebody. This was the Jonathan Corrie story >>> More than a face, you have a name, …
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 …
Piecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
Death walks among us. In every town and village in Ireland, in all communities, even the Irish Traveller community in which it …
Let the People Speak – Irish Water Potential Referendum
Why not also a vote on the property tax issue? I proposed same on Boards.ie some years back to a muted response …
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: …
All Fair at the Ballinasloe Fair
There was auld wans and young wans and all sorts of wild ones Piebalds and ponys, and big horses, small ones hands …
Marching Past Trinity College
Written after the “Right to Work” march on June 1, 2010 —oOo— We marched there, chanting slogans Past the gates of Trinity …
I Said I’d Make a Voodoo Doll
This is an old verse I found on my computer, from when the economy first crashed in 2008 and the extent of …
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 …
Streets of Shame in 2014 – But Banagher Horse Fair Prevails
It was a scene of shame for the Gardaí in Banagher this past weekend, as on the the Saturday, en force they …
Shell Thrown Back to Sea
Beachhead made, image enhanced Sponsorship given, accepted, respectable Corporate politics greases hands Money makes all acceptable. Ethics over income, demand the crowd! …
Well of Life
Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes. We drink from the well in a desert Stagnant the water …
Fiddling at Longford
As if Nero, as the city is destroyed Consumed by economic storm Fiddle is played – how good we are Come, listen …