GOD SPEAKS TO BREATNACH BLOG
I contacted God for the Breatnach Blog to get a deeper and more in-depth interview on the referendum issues……Her position could be summarised as the following…
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MY BUCKET LIST
The fortitude of Nelson Mandela
The single-mindedness of Che Guevara
The wit of Oscar Wilde
The voice of Richard Burton
A few true sentences
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PRISON OFFICERS BACK BREATNACH BLOG
The Irish Prison Service has officially admitted that over 139 prisoners had their confidential communications with solicitors bugged.
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GARDA WHISTLEBLOWERS BACK BREATNACH BLOG
‘…an alleged garda assault on a prisoner exposed a recording device in a stud wall..’
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KILLER SWANS DROWN DUBLINMAN
The killer swans lay in wait in the rushes of the Grand Canal.
VERONICA GUERIN’S SECRETS
Not long before journalist Veronica Guerin was shot dead in Dublin in 1996 we met …and she confided she was working on a particular investigation of police corruption … she and I discussed sleaze and bribery in the Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police force.
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SEASHORE VOICES
The voice from nowhere stipulates how I should take care of dog poo. I am early-walking the path behind the sea-breaker wall, close to Dublin’s Salthill train station, accompanied only by my intimate shadow and the sound of the voice of my mother.
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MICK HANLY BATTLES RAGWORT
I see singer songwriter Mick Hanley is responding positively to an Irish Arts Center invitation to perform in Manhattan New York in November while battling with Rogwort in his back garden. Is he past the point of rescue?
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THE STORY OF MOUSE LAND
You can never have enough democracy. I am a democrat with a small ‘D’. By that I mean not a US Democrat or even a Canadian Democrat as in the amusing YouTube video attached. But it is still well worth viewing.
In every other sense, like republicans of the socialist tradition, I am a democrat and believe you can never have enough democracy. This leads to the inevitable question of whether we have real democracy now. Watch The Story of Mouseland and decide.
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SHANE MAC THOMÁIS -an untimely sudden death
TALL, FIT, soft spoken with a kindly mischievous glint in his eyes Shane Mac Thomáis was hard to miss in a crowd. When I first met him around 2001 I was already acquainted with his late father, Éamon, and had avidly read and followed his father’s folksy historical media contributions, such as bestseller Me Jewel and Darlin Dublin.
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