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POPSWho murdered Ciara Durkin? Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy have supported Ms Durkin's family's call for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. Ciara was the 8th of 9 children, all born in Ireland. After retiring as a teacher in Galway, the father, Tom Durkin returned to the US with his wife, Angela, and settled in Dorchester in 1986 when Ciara was 9. He died of a heart attack several weeks after the family moved to Boston. As a young girl, she attended St. Mark’s Elementary School in Dorchester. She joined the Army National Guard in October 2005 after getting laid off from her information technology job at Fenway Health. Brother Pierce Durkin wasn’t home when Ciara called from Afghanistan to wish him a happy birthday. Hours later, after learning that she had been killed, he listened to her singing ‘‘Happy Birthday’’ again.
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POPSSilent Nuala O'Faolain (1940 – 9 May 2008) was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There , a novel, My Dream of You , and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May . The first three were all featured on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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POPS"To Hell or to Connaught" Ethnic Cleansing 17th Century style
The Irish recognise modern day ethnic cleansing because we have a long tradition of real ethnic cleansing like as practices by the Zionist on the modern Irish, the Palestinians. Ours is no false myth either. Like our Famine, detailed records are there for all to see. We were dragged into the English Civil War. Being neutral was as guilty as being on the King's side. We were required to give up our faith to have ant chance of retaining residence. This is not to rehash history or beat up on the bad Brits as most good Brits have Irish blood somewhere. It's to indicated that the 'victim' race have by no means a right to their beloved victimhood. We Irish have risen from the equal of black slaves to our present elevated position when we gave up the begging bowl and stood tall. 60 years of independence has made the Zionists the least loved nation on earth. Only what Bush did with the World's goodwill for the USA post 9/11 is on a par with what Israel has achieved with its reputation i
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POPSCRUCIFIXES Banned. Irish Heads Wailing under Attack by Settler. Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist all get shabby treatment from the Zionists. Banned from wearing their crucifixes by a Nazi settler. "After seven or eight minutes, Dr Younan said Archbishop of Armagh Cardinal Seán Brady decided that he could not risk a confrontation with the settler." ...RTE Why are we waiting? For one disgruntled settler. Smacks of setup to me
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POPSThe YANKS Deserved THANKS. A prosperous Ireland provides the model of how peace should be done without invasion or regime change. What worked. Essentially your stick was bigger than the UK stick. Clinton's assertion that Northern Ireland could no longer be treated as internal only and so achieved justice and civil right for ALL in the North and not just the privileged that controlled the apartheid statelet. We Irish don't do bullshit. Those words of out PM were meant, truly. Thanks America on behalf of the 40 million Irish-Americans and the millions back here.
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POPSDying! Soon! Nuala O'Faolain, brutally frank interview., Nuala O'Faolain, best selling author and feminist campaigner. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There, a novel, My Dream of You, and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May. The first three were all on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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POPSWorld's Largest Literary Prize for Fiction: Impac Works are nominated by participating libraries and can be written in any language provided it has also been published in English. Some 161 libraries in 121 cities nominated works. This year's winner will be named on June 12th.
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POPSRape in Ireland: Females at fault!!! I'm very disappointed in the attitude still about rape in Ireland. Even more surprised that other females blame the victim equally with the males. So don't expect sympathy from your sisters. The one ray of sunshine is that the younger the questioned, the more sympathetic the answer. Older people always find it harder to understand the dress of the young. They forget the 60's when we wore even less or none.
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POPSBlair to Meet Masked IRA Leaders offer!!! "Tony was always convinced of the powers of persuasion that he had to win people over. About three or four times he suggested to Gerry Adams that he should meet the IRA Army Council. Adams said 'well I'm not really sure about that'. One time he said 'yes, maybe', but then it came to nothing." Asked how the meetings would have been conducted, Powell says of the IRA leaders: "I suppose they could have worn masks."
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POPSSt.Patrick's Day FOUR, lest you forget. “As a mother who knows the preciousness of children, not just mine - but all children - I want the court to understand that before we walked into the recruiting station a million people had already died in Iraq from U.S. imposed sanctions, half of them children,” her sister Clare said earlier that day at her sentencing in Binghamton federal court. I wanted to show my support for the actions of the St. Patrick’s Four (SP4). But nearing the end of a short but concentrated tour of presentations in New York’s capital area, I’d nearly decided not to venture to Binghamton for the sentencing of the group. After arriving there I quickly realized it would have been a big mistake not to have come. “War is bloody. The blood we brought to the recruiting station was a sign of the blood inherent in the business of the recruiting station,” read the statement the group issued the day of their action, “The young men and women who join the military, via that recruiting station, are people whose li
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POPSIreland's Favourite GAY. Next President? No, we're not running out of great candidates to continue the great female line of Irish Presidents, but David isn't getting any younger so maybe the females would give him a turn.
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POPSMar 8: International Woman's Day: Irish Activist "Bernadette served as a UK Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency. She witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday. She was later infuriated that she was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in Parliament. She stood as an independent candidate in support of the prisoners on the blanket protest and dirty protest at Long Kesh prison in the 1979 elections to the EU Parliament in Northern Ireland, and won 5.9% of the vote. She was a leading spokesperson for the Smash H-Block Campaign, which supported the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in 1980 and 1981, though she remained publicly critical of Gerry Adams and other Sinn Féin leaders. On Jan 1981, she and her husband were shot by Loyalist terrorists who broke into their remote County Tyrone home. British soldiers were watching the her home at the time, b
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POPSDr.NO! aka CHUCKLE Bros! Big Ian. Brought down not by Sinn Féin, but from inside his own party, DUP. Why? Look at the first photo. The Chuckle Bros. as they became known. These previous sworn enemies: one the hater of all things Catholic and the Republic; the other second in command of the IRA Army Council became a brilliant team working well for the Provence. Many in his party could not abide their working so well together in such a public fashion. That and the corruption of his son Ian Junior caught too often in transgressions. Overall little enough to undo a life time of No, No, NO, no only to eventually say yes. He must wonder now if there is a god of justice in the heavens!!! I never thought I'd fell sorry for this man who spouted so much bilge, but I do. Caesar learnt to beware of your political 'friends' but too late also. They'll crucify him now on his way down. Yet he was the last nail in the Irish peace process. There are only shits to take his place.
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POPSFormer Catholic Priest: Dean elect of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. "The Venerable Dermot Dunne (49) is the current archdeacon of Ferns, and will succeed the late Very Rev Desmond Harman, who died in December." "So therefore there is no rejection, there is actually a celebration of life, a celebration of movement in the Christian faith because after all I'm not moving out of faith, it's the same Christian spirituality. It's just that I've chosen a different expression of it." He added that the task facing him in his new role was one of "integration" in relation to a cathedral that is "the beating spiritual heart of Dublin". Archdeacon Dunne will become the 35th dean of Christ Church Cathedral since 1539 when he is installed in May." ...IrishTimes
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POPSSir Bob confronts Bush's Soul on Africa. Geldof confronted Bush on a number of issues, although he seemed unwillingly to offend the president's hospitality and feels that the US leader is sensitive to criticism about his diction and use of language. Despite some "verbal tics", the president speaks fluently and in wonderful aphorisms, reported Geldof, whose interview does much to humanise the world's most powerful man. ...Guardian Bono next?
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POPSWW1 Kid Soldiers: B&W pics "After the WW2 very young boys were still able to enlist in the American services. This went on until the early fifties. Nowadays the USA is the only country where an association called Veterans of Underage Military Service (VUMS) exists. It was formed in 1991." "Buckles enlisted in the American army at age 16 in 1917. During his summer vacation from school he went to the Marine Corps recruiting office to enlist, told them he was 21, but he was turned down: too small. He tried the Navy: too flatfooted. He then went to the Army and they accepted him. "The old sergeant advised me that the Ambulance Service was the quickest way to get to France because the French were begging for ambulance services". In France he served at several locations. After Armistice Day he was assigned to a POW escort company to return prisoners back to Germany. In WW2 while working in the Philippines, the Japanese army seized him and he stayed in a POW camp for more than 3 years.
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POPSDaniel Day-Lewis BAFTA Winner is unbeatable Daniel Day-Lewis, who, after winning the best actor Bafta for Paul Thomas Anderson's extraordinary There Will be Blood, now finds himself confirmed as favourite to pick up the Academy Award later this month. Day-Lewis's triumph went some way toward cheering up both the Irish and British contingents. Born in London, the son of a poet laureate, he now lives in Wicklow and carries an Irish passport.
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POPSIrreverent Irish Turkey crokes with the best, seriously!!! The turkey shot to fame in the 1990s on children's TV programme The Den with fellow puppets Zig and Zag before releasing a string of hits. He is so popular that thousands of voters spoiled their ballot papers in the 1997 presidential election by writing "Dustin". Dustin is up against five other contestants in the Irish Eurosong contest on February 23.
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POPSTrain drove over 2 Dead Drunk Men. "When the driver stopped, he saw two heads underneath the train." Well two heads are better than one or non. Note the sentence despite "the court hearing that one had 33 previous convictions while the other had 63 previous convictions." 5,000 plus Brazilian fans, most of them resident in Ireland, cheered Brazil to victory in the 80,000 capacity Croke Park.
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POPSIrish "Peace comes dropping slow" Equivalent to the Pope building a Protestant church in Vatican City, or to Bush saying he was wrong to invade Iraq. The symbolism is momentous. On a par with Australian PM Rudd's recent offer of a long overdue apology to the Aborigines, but most welcomed by right thinking persons. The Orange Order did not have a distinguished history in Ireland. If we can do it why not ...
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