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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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …