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1 week ago | 
irishborderpoll.com | Kevin Rooney
Wednesday June 11th, 7pm, In conversation with author Stan Erraught. Kneecap’s riotous live performances and on stage political rhetoric recently led to a political and media outrage and calls for festivals and venues to cancel all future gigs. Mo Chara, one third of Republican rap trio Kneecap has joined his predecessors Christy Moore and the Wolfe Tones in being dragged into legal battles or censorship not for violence but for being provocative and making the British state look stupid.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishborderpoll.com | Kevin Rooney
Join us in discussion with Stan as we talk Kneecap, the Wolfe Tones, Celtic Symphony, Punk, The Cranberries, censorship and much more. Wednesday, June 11th, 7pm. Accent Centre, 12 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JAIs Celtic Symphony by the Wolfe Tones with its chants of OOH AH UP THE ‘RA offensive? Will it deter moderates from supporting Irish Unity? Or, is the criticism of the Wolfe Tones song ‘a confected controversy’ and manufactured outrage?
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1 month ago | 
irishborderpoll.com | Kevin Rooney
Tuesday May 20th, 7pmGrimond Room Portcullis HouseWestminster, London SW1A 2JRSDLP MP Colum EastwoodSinn Fein MP Pat CullenKevin Meagher Author, commentator and writer for irishborderpoll.comIreland’s Future invited We are living in the end days of partition and must prepare for unity referendums this decade, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald declared at an Easter Commemoration in April.
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1 month ago | 
kdrooney1.medium.com | Kevin Rooney
I coached middle school and high school volleyball for 15 years. When a match started going sideways, a couple of things could happen. First, especially in middle school, the players would become frozen in their spot out of fear. It’s why teams come together in the middle after every point — to check in, connect, and move. If that’s not happening though, other things start to fall apart too.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
irishborderpoll.com | Kevin Rooney
You don’t have to look to South or Central America for liberation theology in action. We witnessed it in Ballymurphy. Growing up in West Belfast in the 1970s at the height of the Troubles, my family attended 8.30 am Sunday Mass in Corpus Christi church in Ballymurphy. One Sunday, a small group of nuns I hadn’t seen before appeared in the pew next to us. They were dressed in white saris with a blue trim. They started to come every week, always taking the same pew next to ours.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
sluggerotoole.com | Kevin Rooney
In the year of elections worldwide, now comes the Irish one at the fag end of the year. Táoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheal Martin kept saying the polls would be in the New Year, but the dogs on the street knew it would be this side of Christmas, especially with Sinn Fein in permanent crisis mode recently. So, who will make up the next Dáil parliament at Leinster House? For as long as I can remember, the Irish administrations have all been coalitions, and that will not change anytime soon.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
sluggerotoole.com | Kevin Rooney
So now the dust has settled on the 2024 US presidential election. And who would have predicted such a comfortable Donald Trump victory with the popular vote and electoral college secured. Also, the Republicans secured the Senate and at time of writing still stand a good chance of gaining the House of Representatives too. A clean sweep is a distinct possibility. The Democrats are in the doldrums with countless post mortems no doubt trying to ascertain why it all went so wrong for them.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
bonitaesteromagazine.com | Kevin Rooney
Fifth Ave’s Must-do Dining Experience is Keewaydin’s on FifthWhen you think of Southwest Florida and all it has to offer, there are always those places that are on the “where to go” and “where to eat” lists. Dining on Fifth Avenue is definitely on the “where to eat” list, and visiting Keewaydin Island just north of Marco Island is certainly a “where to go” destination. Keewaydin’s on Fifth combines the two, giving diners a taste of laid-back island ambience on the prestigious Naples avenue.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
irishborderpoll.com | Kevin Rooney
Four years ago the Irish establishment was rocked when Sinn Fein topped the poll in the General Election. Working class and young people unable to afford rents or homes voted for the party in huge numbers. Dubbed left wing populists by the media, pundits warned that if the party got into government the Republic it would end up like Venezuela as Mary Lou was pronounced the Irish Trump. Fast Forward June 2024 and SF collapsed in local and European elections with just 12% of the vote.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
irishcentral.com | Kevin Rooney
The Irish rebels song of Kevin Barry, who was executed in 1920, spurred many to action and countless others to support action being taken. The ballad of Kevin Barry was written shortly after his execution on Nov 1, 1920, by an unknown author and it spread like wildfire. Of course, nowadays we have the internet and Facebook and Twitter where songs or stories go "viral" as we say.
