IT

Ireland - the final frontier - to boldly go where no man has gone before. The policy of the president to invest heavily in education and youth over the years 1980 to 2010 is proving to be very useful. It meant that the young people of Ireland proved to be more articulate than average counterparts elsewhere in the eurozone with tightfisted governments spawning xenophobic regimes. It has meant that the island at the edge of Europe away from the main events and the big action centres is rising like a phoenix and will soon be the international maestro de facto of a large IT empire - Ireland at the centre of a new restored IT commonwealth. The prospects for the island look rosier and rosier. And now with young people exported around the world and working in lots of advanced IT companies, the great Irish strength and virtue of articulation and communication with a plethora of language skills for the internet age is proving decisive - it is driving Ireland along way forward and way ahead of all old fashioned pre-internet countries. Ireland - a new eurozone silica valley.

Eheu

Now come on lads, sure I wouldn't have to become a prince regent if everybody realised who they were and that Ireland has a Celtic Gaelic aristocracy already on its shores, now would I? Appointed as a prince regent to knight and raise up such a gaelic nobility for future times, it is my job, a sacred mission received from Dr William Byrd and Sr Marie Finistere of Paris to raise up this stock and place ermine on its shoulders. The resident Normans do not need any knighthoods as they have theirs from their lineage to William the Conqueror, but the Gaels do - May Mary of the Gaels protect you all.  I have been touring the country, raising up men and women of sufficient interest and quality. Godspeed. This process of knighthoods should be complete by 2015. And of course all those brave men and women that struggled for their homeland 1916-2000 officially and unofficially in and out of Port Laoise are also considered as worthy stock ipso facto by dint of the love of patria - the Fatherland awaits you all.

Golly Gosh - 2014

Look all this kerfuffle about the idea of monarchy at last coming back to the island that practically invented the concept? We should not allow our own experience of the shadow side of a foreign monarchy so to dominate our minds that all we see is shadow even in our own case. Do we not have institutes of freedom, of redress, of recourse, of democratic leverage? And if so, why should we fear the beginnings of a call from the grass roots for a monarchy. Even an elected sovereign every 20 years would be better than all this rumble and tumble we call an SPQR today lads. So come on, let's give this one a try.

Lost

Ah lads 'tis true, there is a lot of earls and peers and counts and countesses out there lost in and around the olde centres of continental Europe. Sure isn't the whole O'Donnell clan buried under the floors of a church in Italy? And then there is the other wild geese of the gaeltacht earls and the like dotted around Zurich and Vienna, all slowly lost to the old island we call home since a Marxist-socialist interpretation took over the 1916 constitution. It was never meant to be a red island, and it was always one which was intended to call home the wild geese come the settlement of 1922. These lads and lassies, and I am one, are out there, and 'tis time to call them home to the old island. To rebuild.

Mmm - 2012

MMM Ireland can always recover from any mishap - simply through self-awareness. Oil. Gulf.

Ireland = f+

Yes by the time the happy couple, Bren and Angelousa, come back from their honeymoon trip to the Middle East and especially to lovely Israel and the Liban, it will be time to set the turnips, and plant a few seed King Edwards, and maybe also a few runner beans. Lots to do in the little garden plot around Clongowes. Yes by the time Bren and Angele come home, Ireland will be ripe for growing. People will begin to make long term plans again too. It will be a different Ireland from the old war-torn variety of yesteryear. And Russians and Germans too will want to come and settle here in the lovely golden light of the setting sun on Galway Bay. "If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, and watch the sun go down on Galway Bay ..."

The Return of the King

Well then the Lebanon is a long way away, but the heir-apparent, the modern descendent of the last High King of Ireland, is on his way home. He will be with us soon. It is the Return of the King. And an ard-rhi is on his way - true lineage of the Don O'Connor, now resting in his tomb in Clongowes.