Stirring the Waters

Stirring the Waters

The recent Legacy Framework launched by Tanaiste, Simon Harris, and Secretary of State Hillary Benn has reignited the debate on how we remember the Troubles. The Independent Commission for Information Recovery and Reconciliation, the ICRIR will be replaced by two new...
The Three T’s

The Three T’s

I see this book as part memoir and part final testament complementing the pastoral and more public ministry to which I have been privileged to contribute in a modest way for well over half a century. A period that has seen the horrors of what we euphemistically call...
Remembering Aleksei Navalny

Remembering Aleksei Navalny

1st March 2024. Remember this day. The funeral of Aleksei Navalny in southeast Moscow. I spent some time looking at the BBC coverage of events surrounding the service in the Church of the Icon of Our Lady Quench My Sorrow, and then his burial in Borisovskoye...