Áine McCarthy

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An t-Idirnáisiúnta

Christy Moore

A Great Song Performed by everyones favourite Communist Performes. lol. Thats right its the boy Christy Moore.





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The Pecker Dunne

Pecker Dunne was born into a travelling family in Wexford c1933. Like other travellers, he used to play on a fiddle he made himself. He performed outside hurling and football matches. He also busked widely in Ireland, England and France.
Resembling a Mexican bandit with his trademark beard and stocky build, he is a colourful character, as widely known around Ireland as Margaret Barry was to a previous generation. He is best known for The Miximatosis Rabbit and a version of The Black Velvet Band called The Old Morris Van. It was from him that Sweeney's Men got Sullivan's John.
For the past 20 years or so he could be heard singing and playing the banjo in Killarney and at Munster Final day in Thurles. He featured in the film Trojan Eddie with Richard Harris and Stephen Rea. Nowadays he lives in County Clare.
Aged 74, he was treated in a local hospital in 2007 for a throat illness. His spirit was as high as ever. Sr Carmel O'Sullivan said: "Part of his healing process is playing music and we've found that he has brought a lot of pleasure to other patients in the hospital as well. He has been playing the banjo behind his back, playing it with a biro and also with a part of a bicycle pump."

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The Dunne Family




History of an Irish Musical Family.Mickey Dunne and his pipes are a unique and well-known phenomenon in the world of traditional Irish music. Mickey's style of piping embodies the free-flowing traveller piping style associated with the legendary Johnny Doran, Finbar Furey, and Paddy Keenan, all of whom have provided Mickey with inspiration. Mickey now provides the next generation of pipers with inspiration by his playing and his generosity with his other musical skills. He is a sought after and a welcome presence at tionols (A gathering of Uilleann pipers) around the globe.
Mickey playing pipes




Mickey's first Uillean pipe CD was The Limerick Lassie, widely hailed as a unique and masterful piping experience. Copies are available from Na Piopairi Uillean in Dublin. The new Dunne CD Legacy features Mickey with daughters Brid and Niamh in a heartfelt offering of gratitude to all who came before them. It gives an insight to the unique contributions these present day Dunne's offer to the dynamic and ever-changing traditional music art form.

Mickey studied the art of Uillean pipe-making under the tutelage of the legendary Cillian O'Briain. He now manufacturers quality chanters, practice set and half sets in his hometown in Caherconlish County, Limerick. Mickey Dunne is life president of the Thomond Pipers Club in Limerick, an organization recently re-established after the lapse of a century.




Concert for the Thomond Pipers Club, 2003.
Concert for the Thomond Pipers Club, 2003. John Rooney, Paddy Keenan, Finbar Furey, Mickey Dunne.

Playing pipes




He is resident musician at Nancy Blake's in Limerick every Monday and Wednesday night, where he can be heard playing his much-loved Irish music with his long time musical friends.

Mickey can be contacted at:

Templemichael,
Caherconlish,
Co Limerick.







Whoever thinks Pecker Dunne or his assistants needs Viagra or ever needed Viagra is a fuckin eejit and know nuthin about travellin people. Now fuck off and leave me in peace you buffer !

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BURRELL REFUSES RETURN TO INQUEST



Paul Burrell says he has no plans to be in the UK in the near future
Former royal butler Paul Burrell has refused to return to the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He had been asked to explain discrepancies between his evidence and comments reported in the Sun newspaper.

In a video recording obtained by the Sun, Mr Burrell apparently claims he introduced "red herrings" during his evidence and held back facts.

The coroner said he cannot compel him to give evidence because he is outside the court's jurisdiction in the US.

Lord Justice Scott Baker said in a statement: "The coroner asked him to give further evidence either in person or via videolink from abroad.

"Mr Burrell has refused to do this and, as he is outside the court jurisdiction, the coroner has no power to compel him to give evidence."

'Play the game'

Mr Burrell's conversation was recorded in a New York hotel on 18 February after he gave evidence to the inquest a month before.

Sections of the transcript of the conversation have been read to the jury at the High Court.

In it, Mr Burrell said he had made the 500-mile round trip from London to his home in Cheshire to pick up documents for the coroner because he had to "play the game".

In the transcript, Mr Burrell said: "I sacrificed my own integrity for the bigger picture, but people are wise enough to realise that.

"Perjury isn't a very nice thing to have to consider."


I was trying to impress him. The comments I made to him were not correct
Paul Burrell

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A witness statement made on 26 February was also read to the jury, in which he said in his evidence to the inquest he had not concealed "anything remotely relevant to the inquiry".

"I accept that whilst I was under cross-examination my evidence may at times have strayed from the strictly relevant, but at no time did I tell any untruths."

'Showing off'

He said when the conversation took place he was "tired and depressed and had been drinking all evening".

During the conversation, he was "showing off", he added.

"I am not proud of this. I was trying to impress him. The comments I made to him were not correct."

Court officials have said an investigation into whether he committed perjury was not in the coroner's remit.

At the time of his three-day appearance at the inquest in January, Mr Burrell described the experience as "horrid".

Meanwhile, the coroner told the inquest that it was "a mystery" that no photographs existed of Diana's final car journey prior to the crash in Paris which killed her, Dodi Al Fayed and driver Henri Paul in 1997 - even though the vehicle was pursued by paparazzi.

But picture agent Laurent Sola, whose photographers were working on the story that night, said any unclear pictures would have been discarded.

"If there were photographs of Princess Diana and they were not clear or blurry they would be cut off and thrown away," he said.

The coroner replied: "It does seem a bit odd that all the photographers seem to have had the same problem, if they took any photographs."



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The hearing continue

"You are either With us or Against Us"

Israel keeps setting pre-conditions, as a pretext, to enter negotiations to talk about a peace. It is a mechanism which has been used to appear reasonable to world opinion and as a delaying tactic for decades now, since long before the Oslo Peace Accord, does anyone remember that ?. About two years ago Israel stated, that Fatah were not an elected party, to negotiate with, and demanded elections, as a pretext to delay further peace negotiations. The Americans as is usual in this matter, did what the Israeli lobby in Washington ordered and demanded, there be elections in Gaza and the West Bank.

Palestinians in good faith, doing what was possible, for the sake of peace, went ahead with elections. Lo ! and behold !, to the shock and horror of both the Americans and Israeli's, Hamas was elected the Government of Palestine, by the people in a free and fair election. The goal posts were moved again. Israel said it would not negotiate with Hamas and demanded that the the US designate them as a terrorist organization. The US, the supposed beacon of democracy, would not accept the election result and bowed to the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby in Washington and a compliant, subservient pimp press, once again and promptly follow Israeli bidding.

This ridiculous deadly game of pre-conditions, has been played out now, for more than forty years with the slaughter of innocents.The international corporate media, which is meant to be an integral part of democracy, are an essential tool in this process of criminalizing all dissent in the middle-east. Zionist Israel is disingenuous, fact. Zionist Israel has no interest in peace, quite the reverse actually, because every year that goes by without settlement, they are land grabbing and illegally building more settlements on the west bank. To be fair there is a minority of Jewish people who are sick of the killing and want peace. In Ireland we call people such as the Zionists, Land grabbers and they have currently left the Palestinian people, with less than 14% of their original lands, this is robbery with murder, its as simple as that, no excuses.

Anyone who is remotely familiar with the middle-east, knows these facts. These are the basic facts, at the root of all the wars against Islam for the last forty years, which incidentally included, what they term a terrorist war, used by Gold Meir to originally found the state of Israel, supported and funded by Britain. This is the fuel that feeds the Al Queda fire, this is one of the main reasons why they attacked the World trade centre in New York. War is big business and ordinary citizens of the US or Ireland are not meant to know this, hence press censorship. Hence the one sided pro-Israeli propaganda, in the corporate western media. There has been a war in the middle east, in one form or another, for more than fifty years now and the first victim of war is the truth.

Everyone knows what the solution is and its very, very simple, its not rocket science. All of these talks, about talks, is just a smokescreen from the truth. Every dog on the street knows that the solution is simply, that Israel return to pre-1967 borders, it is as simple as that. Palestine will have to make a sacrifice and go a step further than what Mahatma Gandhi suggested and recognize the state of Israel.

MAHATMA GHANDI

"Palestine
belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the
English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the
Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be
justified by any code of conduct. The Mandates have no sanction but
that of the last War. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to
reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews
partly or wholly as their national home. I am not defending the Arab
excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting
what they rightly regarded as an unwarranted encroachment upon their
country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong,
nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of
overwhelming odds."


Perhaps one of the most appropriate for remembering this great soul of Ghandi, is the tribute from one of Israel's most intelligent sons, Albert Einstein; "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." It is however certain that these generations to come will have lessons to learn from the extraordinary life of Mohandas Gandhi"


The US is using this dispute since the Suez crisis, as an excuse to make war after war in the region to get cheap oil out of the Middle east. They ousted the British Imperialists, the previous robbers of people's natural heritage in the region, after the Suez saga. They do give them a little of the spoils of war in return, cheap oil contracts. They have just murdered "1,173,743" children, women and men in Iraq, and murdered 3,974 of their own sons as Cindy Sheehan will verify, since their illegal invasion. This includes the use of chemical weapons, torture, instigating tribal fratercide, spilling millions of gallons of human blood, in the faint hope of millions of gallons of cheap oil, in the future. All they have accomplished, is the installation of a pro-Iran government in Baghdad, how clever.

The plain people of Ireland, which was Britain's first colony, have plenty of experience of these underhand murderous barbarian tactics. We are quite familiar with the lies and propaganda of these liars and murderous Imperialists. Gaza right now has been turned into a Concentration Camp by Israel. Last week saw the executions of more than 120 prisoners, in this open air prison, including the murder of more than 20 children and babies by Israel. Presently Israel i slowly strangling Gaza and Palestinians depriving them of food, medicine and electricity. The most vulnerable, children elderly, sick are dying from this slow cold, heartless, genocide being committed by Israel.

Anyone who speaks about this or speaks the truth is branded a terrorist or an extremist. I am nether, I am simply an Irish citizen who is disgusted and made physically sick witnessing the daily Genocide at Gaza Concentration Camp, by Israel using American Jet fighters and weapons, paid for by you, the American taxpayer, to the tune of 3 trillion, tax dollars. To add insult to injury, they murder and slaughter babies and children in the name of religion and keep using the holocaust of the last century, as justification for another chosen race, to ethnically cleanse the middle-east of Arabs.

Its time the world stood up these bullies and said enough is enough. Israel and the US should be immediately expelled from the UN. There is more than enough evidence that both the US and Israel are war criminals. Any world citizen with a modicum of political savvy know this to be fact, we have witnessed it daily on our TV screens now for more than fifty years now, are you sick of it ?. The US and the Israeli response to articles like this, is to either use Mossad and secret agencies worldwide, to silence the messenger, or journalist, or torture them in secret locations, as designated terrorists, in secret torture camps, worldwide.

The truth will set us free but first, we must let the truth be free. Stop the Censorship. Contact your elected representative wherever you may be and demand that they immediately call for the expulsion, of both the US and Israel from the UN as branded war criminals. Do not settle for the common political cheap superficial platitudes of careerist politicians and nudge, nudge, wink, wink, complaints. Demand action now !. There can be no more excuses for barbarism and state terrorism. You are either with us or against us, make up your mind. We are either a civilized world or we too are barbarians. Its time for action, contact your elected representative immediately, NOW by telephone or email and stop this bloodshed.

Evil will prevail, while good citizens do nothing, as happened in Fascist pre-war Europe. Good citizens of Israel, we also need your help, we are aware you are there.
Silence on this matter is no longer ethical, this is Genocide !. Silence is tacit approval of War Crimes.