Brian O'Doherty's Blog  

This was consecrated just a few days ago. It honours the Soviet military and commemorates the USSRs 27 million people killed during the defeat of nazi Germany in WWII

    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 […]

Last night, in his sleep, in his small palace in Rome, 400 years ago, one of the greatest figures in Irish history passed away, Hugh O’Neill. . With him in his final moments may have been his teenage son, John, whom he had nominated to succeed him as Earl of Tyrone and as The O’Neil. […]

I haven’t heard one word of sympathy for bank shareholders (AIB and BOI) during the election campaign, in spite of the injustice done, and still being done, to them. And in spite of their very large numbers. There must be even more votes to be collected from bank bashers and general begrudgers. As we have […]

We moved our server from one data center and replaced it with a new one in a second location. Then the second one crashed and all data was temporarily lost. Now we seem to have everything going again, except music to your right. But keep the faith !

I regret to advise that this site may not be always accessible during the period up to January 31, 2011. This is due to the need to move to a new server in a new data center, and transfer all operating system, software and files. We regret any inconvenience to our members.

Apologies to my readers, especially avid fans, for the time out in the last few months. There was a lot of disruption in my routine, with move of office, move of house and move of city (to Greencastle, County Donegal, lovely spot). I found it difficult to keep up to speed with the details of […]

I reproduce my contribution to the discussion board, Ask About Money, where Seantheman had “accused” me (politely) of probably being a disenchanted BOI shareholder. ” To Seantheman No, I never bought BOI, but it may now be time to do so. For those with loose cash–that excludes me !- it could be the opportunity of […]