SOMEONE IN IRELAND MILITARY EXPERTS in Ireland are confident the country could sustain a two-front war with Russia and China, with some limited effort and a European Union grant. The recent bitch-slappings of both powers by Irish Tanaiste and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, have caused raised eyebrows across the globe, as Ireland, like its Foreign…

FATUOUS CLAIMS CORRESPONDENT CLAIMS BY TORY CHAIRMAN Greg Hands that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a factor in Conservative Party local election losses have been dismissed by the Russian president. A western intercept of communications between the Kremlin and its London embassy indicate that Putin is upset at what has happened to the Conservatives…

POLITICS DESK APART FROM FOSSIL FUELS AND belching competitions, the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia used to be political hypocrisy. Not any more. Virtue Signalling has overtaken hypocrisy for the first time. “You know that trees and bushes, even the grass, grow faster in Canberra than anywhere else in Australia. Except…

FROM OUR CHIEF NATO CORRESPONDENT BARON ULRICH VON DER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN THE SMALL DRONE that exploded over the Kremlin was not a high-tech assassin, it was a Putin fan, says NATO. “Yes, some of these little fellows, they can develop affections for people whose lives we program into their operating systems. This particular drone appears to…

SCIENCE DESK IT USE TO BE that just about every second American claimed they had been abducted and physically examined by aliens. It was a particularly popular experience around the time of the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Today, while their ships and probes are frequently spotted, you hardly ever hear of anyone…

KYIV REPORTING STAFF AND WIRE SERVICES IN A BOMBSHELL report for President Vladimir Putin, one of his strategic experts has told the Russian President that if the Russian Army cannot get the lead out of its boots, it will take about 500 years at their current rate of advance to cross Ukraine and reach the…

BY PATRICK PEARSE TONE CONNOLLY KEVIN BARRY BORU, SECTARIAN EDITOR “THEY’RE THE only ones doing anything positive to bring about a United Ireland.” Joe (not his real name) has been a Sinn Fein voter all his life. “I did a five-stretch in the Kesh and two more in Port Laoise, so I’m Republican to my…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY ARE IRELAND and Russian on the verge of war? Not since 1898, when the Skibereen Eagle announced that it was “keeping its eye on the Emperor of Russia” (the Czar) have Irish-Russian relations sunk so low. It began with Irish Foreign Minister and one-time/part-time Prime Minister Micheal Martin praising a dead Irishman killed…

SCRUTINY DESK BESTSELLING AMERICAN WRITER Malcolm Gladwell, author of books focusing on strange and odd aspects of history and life, has found himself in a position that might make him the subject of one of his tomes. “It isn’t his books that interest us,” says Dr Albert Mengele, of the Der Tod Macht Frei Institute,…

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR “THEY HAVE become so frequent as to be almost normal.” So says Heckler Koch, a research analyst at OK Corral Investments, a New York hedge fund with several long positions in the weapons and firearms sector. “And once a thing attains normality, it is ripe for commercial exploitation. Witness sex, relationships, prisons, courtrooms,…