Brian O'Doherty's Blog  

The following is a slightly expanded version of a letter I sent to the Editor of the Irish Independent today: 17 December 2020 Re: Taoiseach’s remarks about the Bank Bailout The Taoiseach could be more correct than many think in saying, or letting it slip (?), that  the State did not bail out the banks. […]

    I shook hands with Robert F, Kennedy 50 years ago today, June 4, 1968, on Market St., San Francisco, where he was canvassing for the Presidency. He was murdered the following day, June 5, in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, almost directly opposite our (CTT-Irish Export Board) office. The shock, the horror, the […]

The Irish government proposes that the Senate should be abolished, our second chamber, our Upper House. So, before doing so, and in the context of options to “reform” it, why not consider turning it, gradually and carefully, into a National Representative Forum where the views of the Irish Nation on matters which pertain to the […]