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A Morning Thought @ 2596

A Morning Thought @ 2595

Micheál Martin’s Visit To US 🪶 A Managed Car Crash

Tommy McKearney ☭ May I beg to differ with the carefully created mainstream media consensus surrounding Micheál Martin’s meeting last month with US president Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance?4-April-2025Ireland’s establishment media took the view that the Taoiseach had very skilfully handled an incredibly challenging situation and had, thankfully, exited the White House without

The Uncompromising Legacy of Christopher Hitchens 🪶 Free Speech In A Censored Age

Labour Heartlands ✏ Written by Paul Knaggs.Remembering Christopher Hitchens: Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!On this day, we commemorate the life and legacy of Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011), the fiercely intellectual, unapologetically outspoken writer and polemicist whose defence of free speech remains as vital today as it was during his lifetime. A prolific author, journalist,

The Capitalcyst

Christopher Owens 🔖 Sex and death.As intrinsically linked as Laurel and Hardy, both subjects have fascinated writers and artists for millennia and for good reason: the peak of joy and the deepest of despair. The creation of new life and the end of old life.No wonder it makes for great capital.Describing himself as a poet and filmmaker who creates "...literature, film and poetry of a

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Forty Two

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousMoses Dyer magic gives Galway United comeback win over Drogheda UnitedFormer Irish League star pinpoints Dungannon Swifts ace who

A Morning Thought @ 2594

A Morning Thought @ 2593

Conclave 🪶 A Grubby Affair

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 28-April-2025.Photo: Vatican PoolThe Catholic Church and Catholics in general like to refer to those who occupy the post of pope by various titles, pontiff being one of them, which is just an early Christian word for that other title, bishop. And the holder of the post is also known as the Bishop of Rome and perhaps more

America First

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ “America First” 🪶 This Is Not the First TimeAs US President Donald Trump continues with his rantings about “America First” and, while in the process of imitating Adolf Hitler's “Germany First,” he appears to be hell bent on collapsing the global capitalist economies with his tariffs, and the world looks on in somewhat disbelief. Just like the Nazi German Fuhrer who