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You see, if you want to check stuff you need to have somewhere set aside i in which you check it. People used to call them yards or pounds and they have gates and railings and things,and people with clipboards and sniffer dogs .. Now even little old Ireland has been building these at Dublin...

Jane Austen would not have been amused, even if it always rains in Bath.

"If my sillyness means that less people die, then its a folly I would gladly accept. Unfortunately my track record has been depressingly accurate. As of tonight the USA has 16K in the serious critical category, and half of those or 8k ,are likely to survive. ..and of course the surge expected...

The worst rain I ever experienced was outside Bath . In mid afternoon in Summer, it was not possible to see the rear fog lights or brake lights about 50 metres ahead. Of course everyone had lights on.

Well Nelson hated the French..and as Barry will testify they also are a different race. .White of course but a different race . Now I picked up today that Christopher Columbus statue destroyed in the USA yesterday..by First Nation Americans. Soon we will need to destroy those statues of Alfred...

No.. flecc not an Irish view. Very much a world view. How otherwise can you explain millions of young Edwardian men climbing out of trenches into machine gun fire?. Or the Dreyfus affair in France, or the lobotomies in the USA. A recent history identified the last century as" The People's...

Hell, I must be getting soft, but again I find myself agreeing with you again. There was an article by a Prof. In Scotland a few days ago. .The colour of the Ace of Spades , his view was that ,we should retain the statues and the History they represent, and put proper plaques describing the...

.. "We peasants have come a long way since then, putting two fingers up to religion and no longer so compliant, much to the distress of our leaders..." Only since about 1900 did listening to our betters start to go out of Vogue.. But of course we have now enslaved ourselves to political...

The following piece in todays Irish Times might explain Tommies Angst.... Broader feeling in unionism that this is probably a time to consider everything within ‘the great scheme of things’ Alex Kane On October 2nd last year, the UK government published proposals for an amended protocol on...

All of which I would think makes you a reasonable level headed guy, but then you ruin it all with Leprechaun rants.

OG , an Ulsterman a Bigot?., Oh come on sir, get a grip. That is absurd!

"Marxism was responsible for the murder, starvation, imprisonment and torture of at least 80 million people worldwide - more than all of man’s wars and conflicts combined.".. surely not. WW1 40 million ww2 85 million. last time I was in Armagh Grammar School I was impressed by the level of...

And it can happen in much smaller communities also. Literally a stones throw from my house a very similar death and aftermath. Next house almost.. A middle aged woman,with we understand , a drink problem drops into her electric blanketed bed and chokes on vomit. New blankets have time cutoffs ...

Might?, may? .. Don't flatter yourselves. Obama made it very clear 5 years ago. Ask yourself , will you be more concerned with 500 than 60. I warned before ..in 1923 to 1935 , Ireland went into an economic war with the UK , 50 Million again 4 million ..there was only one winner. Trump has...

Tommie, there is a huge difference when people leave Killiney Dublin or even Monttenotte in Cork because they no longer care to half to deal with the riff raff ,and people leaving Bombay St. Belfast with 0.55 Heavy machine gun rounds coming through the walls..from B Specials . In August 69. ...

.. yes very true. But I was emphasising the global significance. Politics can be a dirty business

No flecc..the Battle of the Boyne was a major event in European and possibly World history. I am not exaggerating.. Consider, William of Orange was bought and paid for by a group of London merchants. They deposed the legal King James ,and inserted this individual as their lackey. When he...

Tommie,Tommie, Tommie, why let facts interfere with a good rant. So lets start with" unelected" . Was M Barnier not elected to the French Parliament?. The National assembly from 1978, and reelected multiple times, was he not voted as minister in the French Government was he not elected as MEP...

You must forgive him, its now getting into the start of the marching season , and he will be getting itchy feet, and nowhere to go.

We Irish are a mixed race entirely. Some of our groups include the Hugenot families who escaped from France, ,the Quakers who escaped persecution in England , the Presbyterian brethren who would not conform to Anglican , the leftovers from Cromwell's Roundheads, in north Meath, given land as...