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When the dust settles in the Salem Witch trials that are ongoing in the United States at the moment, the future of the 45th President of the United States will be determined for good or for ill. Game of Thrones eat your heart out. I will wager a bet, that if history records the contributions…
John the Baptist was a great man back in the day. A unique figure across Christianity, Islam and eh…. Mandaeism. Whatever that is. Not bad for a wandering Jewish preacher. Most scholars agree John baptized Jesus. Today though, we are here to talk about 2014 and the time Jesus baptized the Baptist. That’s the problem…
There’s a great phrase in the media at the moment – ‘opportunity cost’ Mostly, as it relates to the impeachment process of President Donald Trump. It’s a term used by Republicans pointing to the log-jam of legislation awaiting safe passage in the US House of Representatives. The USMCA trade deal, finalizing a Budget and legislation…
The House of Representatives impeachment inquiry finally ground to a halt with an embarassing thud yesterday on foot of the testimony of 4 academic law professors. Four individuals with absolutely no direct or even indirect personal knowledge of the matters to hand. But sure, the value of evidence has long since passed it’s sell by…
With Kamala Harris out of the race for the Democratic nomination I wonder if the DNC are considering some bold moves? If they’re not – they should be. The impeachment process to date could not have gone worse for Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and the rest of the House Democrats. TV audiences averaged between 11…
A deep dive into the database of Clinton e-mails on Wikileaks, reveals another long-standing and interesting link between Hillary Clinton and a rather famous Ukrainian Oligarch. Victor Pinchuk. It’s well known that Ukrainian Victor Pinchuk has donated millions and millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. What the Wikileaks emails illuminate is that Hilary Clinton…
When the dust settles on this impeachment process Adam Schiff will only have himself to blame. An honest man’s testimony may have just killed him. He just doesn’t know it yet. Schiff will, if he is honest with himself, come to reflect that it was he alone that made the the critical mistake that allowed…
A close examination of Mark Sandy’s closed door deposition shows his testimony runs to 182 pages. Perhaps because of the length, a key piece of information has gone unreported. On the dates from August 12th to August 20th 2019 there was technically NO HOLD on aid to the Ukraine. We will reprint the follow excerpt…
Today, I am going to highlight some of the reporting issues, as I see it, in modern main-stream media. Particularly how ambiguous quotes are fashioned into facts to feed a particular narrative. Both sides do this a lot. But Today’s focus will be on how news publications misuse sources and source material. A new…
” The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Let me start this piece with a simple belief of mine. Rudy Giuliani is a great man. It feels weird to me that in the current political climate this needs to be explained to…
I have been struggling to write for the last two months. These bouts of publication inertia have happened before and alas I’m sure will occur again. Readers familiar with my writing over the past three years will recognise that I frequently move from penning sporting pieces and interviews to wider more social topics. Frequently, I…
It is, maybe, an unfortunate quirk of fate that Mr Tim O’Leary, of Mayo GAA fundraising fame, bears a more than passing resemblance to the latter day appearance of one Nick Leeson. If the name doesn’t ring a bell Google Baring’s Bank. As we might say here in the West, while Nick Leeson was a…
Watching Kerry people over the last 3 weeks has been a fascinating exercise. The modern age has been great for the sports fan. There are now a plethora of different platforms to consume GAA content on. Podcasts, blogs, youtube channels not to mention the more traditional avenues. The main take-away from everything I have watched…
After over 18 months, Catherine Costigan is back in the cage this weekend on the KSW card in London’s Wembley arena. I spent an entertaining 90 minutes chatting with Catherine on the phone last Sunday. Costigan is never short of good conversation but I decided to let this one settle for awhile before writing it…
A curious interview. Of course it didn’t help that Ariel Helwani and ESPN treated the roll-out of it, like they were issuing the first dispatches from the Cuban missile crisis. Ariel, lest we forget, was one of the earlier subscribers to the Conor Mcgregor story before the Crumlin native ever set foot inside an Octagon….