Louth no events posted in last week
 North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty Anti-Empire >>
Promoting Human Rights in IrelandHuman Rights in Ireland >>
China?s Climate Charade: A Green Fa?ade for Economic Supremacy Wed May 07, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
China's claim to 'climate leadership' is a geopolitical manoeuvre to counter Trump's narrative, not a pledge of emissions cuts, says Dr Tilak Doshi. Expecting China to join the West's economic self-sabotage is delusional.
The post China’s Climate Charade: A Green Fa?ade for Economic Supremacy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed May 07, 2025 01:03 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Reform Councillors Refuse Training on Net Zero and Diversity Tue May 06, 2025 19:09 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage has said Reform councillors are refusing to do training on climate change and diversity after the?party's local election?surge saw it take control of 10 councils and win more than 600 seats.
The post Reform Councillors Refuse Training on Net Zero and Diversity appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?British Workers Come Last in Starmer?s Britain?: Employers Who Hire Indian Workers Given Major Tax ... Tue May 06, 2025 17:16 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has been accused of putting British workers last after it emerged that employers who hire Indian workers are to be given a major tax break under Labour's new trade deal.
The post “British Workers Come Last in Starmer’s Britain”: Employers Who Hire Indian Workers Given Major Tax Break in Labour Trade Deal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Nicola Sturgeon Refuses to Apologise to Women Over Self-ID Gender Policy, Saying ?Trans Lives Could ... Tue May 06, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
A defiant Nicola Sturgeon has refused to apologise to women for her self-ID gender policy after the Supreme Court ruled trans women are not women, saying "trans lives could become unliveable".
The post Nicola Sturgeon Refuses to Apologise to Women Over Self-ID Gender Policy, Saying “Trans Lives Could Become Unliveable” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en Voltaire Network >>
|
Peace for Me. No Peace for You
 louth |
rights, freedoms and repression |
opinion/analysis
 Friday September 22, 2006 17:58 by Sean Crudden - impero sean.crudden at iol dot ie Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth. 087 9739945
Set the Captives Free
In an atmosphere of hustle, hassle, harass, hurry it is difficult to think straight. Even those who can think under pressure would surely think more clearly if there were peace. We need to settle down and get our heads together because we are approaching a decisive political cross-roads in Ireland. There may be tiredness and frustration on one hand and powerful, discordant and divisive voices on the other. Now is not the time to allow ourselves to be manipulated any further. Every individual must assert his and her rights and think clearly for themselves.
 Damien Hulme "Saturday 5 June 2004
We met, by chance, Aisling in Castlebellingham as Rosanna, Dessie & I canvassed with Hatrick. Later we met ‘McKevitt’s’ wife & family (Bobby Sands’ sister, Bernadette) as we wound up our efforts in Bellingham."
Beyond what is in my diary (quoted above) I remember the poignant sympathy I felt for the McKevitt children on that sunny, sultry day. And I was impressed by Bernadette who was big, able and congenial. My impression, not knowing anything about it, had been that the Sands family were small and thin.
After the AGM of Greenore-Cooley Fisherman’s Association in The Blue Anchor, Bellurgan, on 18 September 2006, Damien Hulme approached me and said,
"Well. Will Michael McDowell do anything?"
I explained that I had dropped out of the Progressive Democrats tendering my resignation from the party on Ash Wednesday, 1 March 2006.
Anyway I waxed miserably eloquent about McDowell and the PD’s along the lines of "I reject Satan and all his works and pomps."
"I was in the Progressive Democrats for 19 years and I never scored a point,"
I bellyached.
"Sinn Féin are as bad,"
Damien asserted.
"I believe you,"
I concluded.
It seems to me that Damien’s sons who are political prisoners in England and Michael McKevitt are being held as hostages to guarantee the peace process. It seems to me to be a hurtful anomaly that these men are still imprisoned. I think their imprisonment will erode peace as time goes on just as a piece of grit in her shoe might weaken the resolve of a pilgrim.
|
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter