In what was, perhaps, one of its most famous moments, The Fields of Athenry was sung for as long as eight minutes in the final game of Ireland’s participation in the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, when the fans knew the team was knocked out 4-0 by Spain. It was the ultimate tribute to the tune.
MICHAEL WALSH: With over 50 years of sharp-end nationalist activism (1968-2023) under my belt I was ready to retire. Instead switch to writing novels about Africa, maritime sagas, biographies, and romantic and crime novels.
MICHAEL WALSH SPECIAL: Responding to a newspaper classified advertisement, ‘Back Britain for the British – Join the British Movement, I rebelled against population displacement, lies and political corruption. That was back in 1968.
‘This is total open borders. We have 12,000 homeless ourselves. And the money we are spending on this situation is unbelievable,’ said Mattie McGrath TD (MP).
The collie breed of dog was very much part of Michael’s early life. His family owned an extensive farm near Moville in Donegal, Ireland. He recalls the very special status of the six or so collies that worked the farm with the landowners.
An embargo on Russian oil will not stop the war or save any lives in Ukraine, a European Parliament member from Ireland, Clare Daly, has said.
Ireland’s leaders are promoting and loving the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, while the European Union does nothing to bring an end to the fighting, Irish MEP Mick Wallace declared in a radio interview on Friday.
A DAY IN IRISH HISTORY: 17 July 1920 – The IRA executes English Army officer Colonel Gerald Bryce Ferguson Smyth in Cork.
A drunk Irish citizen was arrested in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania after breaking a window and illegally entering the Palace of the Romanian Parliament. During police interrogation, it turned out that the man mistook the building for a hotel, writes The Times.
The joke about Australia is that it was founded by a bunch of criminals. True enough, from 1788 until 1868, The English ruling caste did send roughly 164,000 convicts to the land down under. America’s dirty little secret? The same exact thing was happening in the United States. In fact, experts estimate that over 52,000 British prisoners were shipped off to colonial America.
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