Dublin Needs To Say No To London.

Last week Mr Justice Humphreys, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, in his summary of judgement ordered the “disapplication of provisions of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 in Northern Ireland and declared others to be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.”

Tips For Aging.

I intend to include occasional Tips For The Aging in this column. If I can remember to do so.  This one comes from Doctor Tom. If you get a mobile phone hang on to your land line. It will be very useful helping you to find where you left your mobile one.

The second Nakba

Two small olive trees were planted in the grounds of the Rodaí McCorlaí Club in west Belfast last Saturday evening. One was in remembrance of the more than 15,000 children killed so far by Israel in its genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied west Bank. The second was to mark the Nakba – The Catastrophe – which saw the forcible expulsion of three quarters of a million Palestinians from their homes by Israeli forces in 1948. Fifteen thousand Palestinians were killed on that occasion and over 500 villages were ethnically cleansed.