FROM OUR SPORTS DESK STORIES ARE EMERGING from Gaza of a football game which took place between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters on a beach on the northern shore of the Palestinian strip. Sources say that both sides began their own soccer games during the night which developed slowly into a single game. “Suddenly, senior…

BY OUR TECHNOLOGY STAFF “THE NEXT THING to watch for is pursuit drones, seeking out enemy drones and shooting them down. Hell, Drone Aces might even emerge.” Greg Biggles was a jet ace in Vietnam and now runs a technology company in Austin, Texas. He’s in his seventies but looks no older than fifty. He…

BY OUR FILM REVIEWER ORSON KUROSAWA SOMEWHERE DURING THE Battle of Waterloo scenes in this movie, Rupert Everett, playing the Duke of Wellington (Yes) says: “Jesus Christ”. I felt he spoke for all us when he said those words. Perhaps the screenwriter was trying to express his own feelings. Everett’s performance is one of the…

FROM OUR LOOTING EDITOR IN DUBLIN “THE IRISH ARE by nature subversive, factional and divisive, they can’t help it!” So says historian Professor Biblius Scotti-Magnus, whose seminal work Take It Down, Traitor: How Ireland Destroys Power, was on the New York Times bestseller list for five years back in the 1980s. “Who are these far-right…

FROM GAZA FORMER IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY personnel say that recent official Irish responses to the kidnapping of 5-year-old Emily Hand in Israel make them regret not having claimed to be Palestinian when they kidnapped supermarket executive Don Tidey back in 1983. “If we had said we were Palestinian, then there would have been huge street…

FROM DUBLIN, IRELAND RIOTS FOLLOWING THE stabbing of children by an immigrant from North Africa, may have been a cover for a well-planned city-centre robbery, which was conducted in full view of police and cameras, say law and order experts. “There was a terrific amount of looting,” says Dermot Gilligan-Cahill, former police inspector and now…

FROM JEFF DAVIS IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA “THE AMERICAN LEFT is jammed into big coastal cities. They grow no food and many have never seen a gun yet alone used one. They have some dominance in computer technology but they are not the people who make the gadgets their programs run. Many of them cannot change…

SCIENCE DESK NEW EVIDENCE FROM the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that the universe may be older than we first thought. “Or our models are all wrong,” says Dr Armstrong Spock, a world-renowned cosmologist . “We’re discovering galaxies that appear to pre-date the Big Bang; so either the Big Bang Theory as we know it…

FROM OUR DIY EDITOR “TOOLS HELP A man build. And they never leave you.” Bronko Hacksaw, a tool shop owner in Illinois tries to explain why he has swapped pursuing women for making things with high-end tools. Mr Hacksaw is a thirty-five-year-old whose wife left him two years ago and took his house and his…

BY OUR GLOBAL WARMING WRITERS MARS NEEDS CARBON DIOXIDE to have a livable atmosphere. Earth needs to get rid of its excess carbon dioxide to prevent runaway global warming. One scientist says that the meeting of these two needs is a once in a millennium opportunity. Take Earth’s excess Carbon Dioxide and dump it on…