Good news is hard to find, outside of the Word of God.
The latest political announcement to hit Northern Ireland cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered ‘good news’!
Doubtless, Sinn Fein/IRA will be clapping hands and slapping backs but that being so, it will tell us the character of this report.
This is the headline in today’s BBC Northern Ireland news website.
Joe Kennedy III confirmed as US special envoy to Northern Ireland
It is a deliberate ‘poke in the eye’ for the Unionist people of Ulster from that ‘arch-hater’ of all that is Protestant and British, President Joe Biden.
He has acknowledged the influence his mother has had over him and the forming of his political views. She was a bitter emigrant Irish Papist who brought with her to the USA all the bitterness toward all things British and Protestant, that only an Irish Papist heart can contain.
The Kennedy clan is stained with the grossest of immorality. Old Joe Kennedy was a well known philanderer, supportive of Hitler and the Nazis and an opponent of the United Kingdom’s war effort at the first. It is commonly believed that he made much of his great fortune through the sale of alcohol! It was this fortune which bought him his way into politics. (more…)