The McCarthys and other clans

Kilcoe Castle, reportedly bought and lived in by Jeremy Irons and his wife, is believed to have been built by the McCarthys who according to documentation were chieftains from the 1100’s, possibly earlier. They were said to have ruled a large part of County Cork which was seen as a seperate kingdom.

According to reports, the landing of the English, thought to be mainly saxons was followed by the battle of Kinsale in 1605, and an end to celtic sovereignty. The background according to official sources was a time nearing the end of the as described nine year war and the reign of Elizabeth I. The Celts were said to have been supported by Spain. Believed to be saxons fought the Spanish in Kinsale; according to reports, forming a barricade on sea and land. Their calvary was said to have destroyed livestock and crops en route. More troops are believed to have arrived from Spain and the north.

According to documentation, the Spanish who were said to have held the town for three months, and had lost men reportedly to disease and possibly hunger, agreed to saxon terms. Northerners were said to have returned northwards leaving a few clans, amongst them the McCarthys, and were believed to have surrendered around two years later in 1603. According to documentation, Elizabeth I died the same year.

England and Spain are believed to have reached an agreement to no more war in 1604. Hugh Roe O’Donnel took a ship to Spain but was poisoned by the thought to be English administration a few months later. Hugh O’Neil reportedly submitted the same year. Four years later, accompanied by supporters and other chieftains he is believed to have left for Spain. Said to be known as the flight of the earls.

According to a source, the McCarthy kingdom as called, ended in 1606. Florence Mór MacCarthy reportedly died in prison in 1649 at the age of 77. He was said to have been abused, according to one source, going from the tower of London to various other English prisons. According to the source many McCarthys began to make their way to France and other European destinations.

The saxons seized land and buildings north and south. The as called plantation of Ulster was a seizing of the land of Ulster and the bringing in of as described presbytarian scots. There were others, but mainly believed to be Scots stayed. The beginning of anglicisation, north and south.

More news on Covid 19

According to latest perceived figures on May 14, seventy four people were reportedly on trolleys awaiting beds in Irish hospitals; according to demographics, forty two said to be in University Hospital Limerick, twenty two of which being in the emergency department. There could be an investigation into the reason why Limerick had, according to statistics, more patients on trolleys than the rest of Ireland put together. Figures are down even so. An estimated 570 patients were on trolleys in Irish hospitals in February.

With regard to international travel, only essential travel is advised. International travel was stipulated as to include Britain but not northern Ireland. According to the internet a self isolation period of 14 days is still required for international travellers, though travellers from northern Ireland are reportedly unrestricted. Reports are of a surge of covid 19 victims along the border region. One source reportedly believes the incidence of covid 19 increases the closer one gets to the border. A different source discusses the idea of an as called superspreader. A superspreader was described as a person who may not have the disease but is believed to be spreading the virus virulently. It is seemingly mandatory to keep the border open, even so.

Covid 19 said to be under control apart from nursing homes for the elderly and abattoirs.

Health care workers are believed to account for about a third of all cases of covid 19, though no figures for fatalities. Thought to be low due to no vulnerability factors. Of the 1,651 deaths believed to have occurred in Ireland so far as a result of covid 19, 50-60% have reportedly occurred in nursing and other care homes. According to various reports abattoirs are the other main problem area, so far unaddressed. There have been complaints that reportedly some abattoirs have been closed down, and other complaints that the hse have failed to inspect believed to be infected plants. According to a report covid 19 has been ripping through slaughter houses in Germany, Portugal, Australia, Spain, the u.s. and Brazil too.

John Paul II

Pope John Paul II was born Karol Józef Wojtyla in 1920 in interwar Poland otherwise known as the second Polish republic. The second republic was reportedly the 6th largest country in Europe. A 1921 census estimated the population to be 27.2 million. According to officialdom, by 1939, just prior to the second world war the population was estimated at 35.1 million. Almost a third of the population were said to be made up of ethnic groups, mainly eastern Slavs and Eastern European Jews. The second republic reportedly emerged after nearly a century of partitions between the Austrian, Prussian and Russian powers.

According to reports John Paul’s father was Karol Józef Wojtyla senior. He was a captain in the Polish army. He died suddenly, possibly of a heart attack, in 1949. His mother Emelia, who had ill health, died when he was 8 years old. A sister had died in infancy, which left an older brother, said to have been a physician.

John Paul moved to Kraków with his father. He became an actor and was also studying languages which he excelled in. He is known to have been able to communicate in 12 languages. Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and closed the Jagiellonian University where he was studying. During believed to be compulsory military training he refused to fire a weapon. During the war years he reportedly worked in a limestone quarry. He liked writing and wrote prose. He wrote a piece about working as a labourer in the quarry. Later he is believed to have worked in a chemical factory.

When his father died, Karol was the only surviving member of the family. At the age of twenty he said he had lost all the people he loved. According to one biographer he stayed with friends and would sometimes lie prostrate on the floor. In 1942 he asked to join the priesthood. The seminary was running but secretly. He lived through Nazi brutality and in 1944 reportedly escaped being picked up by the gestapo when nearly 8,000 men and boys were rounded up to prevent a planned uprising. He was ordained in 1946 in the Chapel of Kraków. He was to ascend to the highest post in the church.

He returned to Poland in the summer of 1948 after studying in Rome. Poland was controlled by an as described provisional communist government, said to be formed while the original Polish government were in exile. Communist authorities reportedly abolished the faculty of theology at the University of Kraków where John Paul studied theology, and taught philosophy.

John Paul become the first polish pope at age 58. He is said to have travelled to 129 countries where he attracted immense crowds and media attention. In 1982 he visited the uk where he met Elizabeth II. During the meeting, part of which was televised, Elizabeth wanted to discuss a concept of doing one’s duty. John Paul did not respond verbally, closing off the conversation. Hours later, according to one biographer, Charles reportedly burst in on him while he was resting. What happened next is largely unknown. Seemingly John Paul tried to be polite. No further details forthcoming.

John Paul was said to have played a role in the failure of communism, primarily in Poland. The cia reportedly accused Russia of a 1981 assassination attempt in St. Peter’s Square. His would be assassin was believed to be Mehmet Ali Ağca, a thought to be Turkish extremist who had been convicted of killing journalist and human rights activist Abdi İpekçi in 1979. He had reportedly escaped from prison.

John Paul is believed to have apologised in the name of all who have suffered at the hands of the catholic church throughout the years. Namely, the church’s role in the burning at the stake of many members of the Jewish community who didn’t want to join the christian church, and for the church’s treatment of as called heretics, or those who taught their own theological equations.

John Paul’s physical health declined and in 2001 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. From February 2005 he was reportedly plagued with various infections. Before his death reportedly the following April, he is said to have asked that every body be invited to his funeral, and everybody was, including Robert Mugabe who was being held responsible for a crisis of hunger and crime in Zimbabwe at the time. In 2003 Zimbabwe had left the commonwealth, resulting in a reported credit freeze said to be sponsored by various u.s. senators. The lack of resources ultimately resulted in a breakdown of law and order. Mugabe reportedly shook hands with Prince Charles of the uk at the funeral, but no change for good. Pope John Paul is remembered for being a people person and for his smile. He was made a saint reportedly in 2014. Some say saints are ordained when a deceased person is sorely missed, having given especially of themselves.

Restrictions and the economy

According to a news item last week, the indications were of a stable to declining covid 19 mortality rate, though an as described expert has questioned believed to be too stringent restrictions on the premise of a need to build up immunity for the future.

According to a report covering a government meeting on the subject of covid 19, both Alan Kelly and Micheál Martin criticised restrictions. With regard to finance, this year’s borrowing could exceed €30 billion according to predictions. Terms and conditions unclear.

In the seeming absence of a new government, believed to be acting taoiseach Leo Varadkar has predicted rising interest rates in 2021, exacerbating an already out of control economic forecast. According to the report he believes the next government will be unable to afford to borrow further. During the meeting, Micheál Martin questioned discrepencies with regard to which businesses are allowed to open, seemingly illogical, for instance ice cream parlours in Mayo and Galway have been open for several weeks; yet no speech as action, addressing the imbalance.

According to other news, in Spain there have been daily protests against a government proposal to extend current covid restrictions by two weeks, following a compromise with an opposition party. This, reportedly the 5th extentions was said to have originally been for at least twice as long, and has resulted in cries of fascism. According to news, Spanish businessmen are protesting outside the houses of politicians, demanding an end to lockdown.

Water for Africa

African nations are part of the as described 53 nations of the commonwealth, yet many have been left without clean water though African resources have been gaged by experts to have included gold, diamonds and oil.

According to a believed to be official report, 884 million people globally, lack access to clean water, 3 million dying every year of water related diseases. Many Africans need clean water. Charitable organisations often only provide tablets, that in many cases won’t make unsanitary water safe. The digging of wells in Africa would be a way of making amends for exploitation, still apparent.

General improvement, but not in nursing homes or the meat industry

According to government figures there have been no new deaths related to covid 19 reported in Ireland during the last 24 hours. According to various sources the situation has been improving for a while. Yet during a news item yesterday, a believed to be expert said the two areas where improvement has been gaged as slow or non-existent was nursing homes and the meat industry.

Oliver Plunket

The name Plunket is believed to be Saxon. Richard Plunket was lord chancellor of Ireland during the latter part of the fourteenth Century, the name has since been often associated with Ireland. Though originally the gentry republicans were said to have emerged from the dynasty. According to details some may assume that Plunkets infiltrated the Irish republican party but they were reportedly involved in an as called period of Irish self government which lasted from 1642-49. Believed to be formed as a result of the reported Irish rebellion of 1641, reasons being the so called plantation of Ulster and the organised colonisation of people from Britain, mainly Scotland. Land colonised reportedly belonged to Gaelic chiefs who moved south. Colonists were required to be protestants and royalists, and were tasked to control and anglicise the northern gaels who were said to be particularly resistant to English domination. Scots came to Ireland previous to this, some fighting the English so Celts believed to be on both sides.

Notable Plunkets became republicans and were treated severely by the saxons. Joseph Plunket was according to reports executed in Kilmainham jail following the as called easter rising. And Oliver Plunket, reportedly born in 1625. He is thought to have trained as a catholic priest during the so called period of home rule, a believed to be confederation of Irish and catholics of Saxon descent during the period of as called civil war in Britain and Ireland, thought by some to be concerning religious ideals; the as described catholic confederation is said to have had the pope’s blessing.

The invasion of Cromwell, reportedly in 1649 resulted in catholicism being banned. Priests were executed and Oliver Plunket asked to remain in Rome. According to reports he returned to Ireland in 1670, after a period of as called restoration of the monarchy following the execution of Charles I by a returning Cromwell and his men. He was the pope’s envoy. Priests by this time seemingly had been replaced and according to documentation there was a new emphasis on toleration. Attempts by the as called church of Ireland to impose reform via legalities were said to have been relaxed. According to reports Plunket established a Jesuit college in Drogheda in 1670. It was to become the first integrated school in Ireland. Various legalities which made employment conditional to religious persuasion, and reported severe penalties for non-conformists, to which Plunket would not agree resulted in the closure and demolision of the college. This was followed by beliefs by some that catholics wanted to kill the restored Charles II, which, according to documentation resulted in the arrest of Arch Bishop Peter Talbot of Dublin. Plunket, supposedly accused of plotting a French invasion, went into hiding. He was arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle with Peter Talbot. He is said to have administered the last rites to a dying Talbot.

During Plunket’s trial, witnesses for the defence were said to have been afraid to turn up for court. The first hearing, reportedly finding him not guilty was not recognised. According to documentation Oliver Plunket was executed for as called high treason, for promoting the catholic faith. Said to be beautified in 1920, a recognition of a person’s entrance into heaven; he was reportedly canonised in 1975.

Big business versus national sovereignty

According to a news item, Simon Coveney’s brother is chief executive officer of as described eco giant, Greencore, believed to have formed in 1991 during the privatisation of Irish sugar. The company, not thought to be particularly ecological, is believed to have digressed into convenience food, reportedly exiting from the sugar market in 2006, and since then are believed to have acquired several u.k. and u.s. food brands.

Greencore is said to produce 123 million chilled convenience meals every year and 717 million sandwiches and similar food to go. It reportedly produces a range of 2,300 types of convenience foods. Sounds like a monopoly: With regard to Irish enterprise; for instance Ireland’s off shore energy exploration sector were reportedly applying for gas licensing, to what authoritive body is unclear. The superpowers explore and drill for lucrative oil and gas; yet reports were of so called evidence that gas exploration and transportation results in some emmisions, and that natural gas produces more emmisions than the equivalent energy burned by coal or oil.

National energy industries are often vilified seemingly mainly under the cause of environmentalism, yet the superpowers are allowing people to die for the want of their oil. Yemen is a current example and reportedly in crisis. People are said to be dying from lack of food. Aid is seemingly left to charity, and donating websites can be difficult and undiplomatic.

Children commemorated but mistakes left unrectified

Evidence from experts regarding bones found in a so-called mass grave in a Bon Secours mother and baby home indicate that bones do not shed any light on cause of death. A small number of babies and children buried in a structure said to be in the grounds of the former mother and baby home in the town of Tuam, Galway were exumed, probably for examination; age range said to be from 35 foetal weeks to 2/3 years. They are now reburied with a plaque commemorating them. Unmarried mother and baby homes were said to have operated in Ireland between 1925 and 1961. Mothers and babies in Tuam who died of unknown causes were believed to have been buried in the grounds of the facility.

There have been other instances of unbaptised babies and some adults not being buried in the church graveyard. The concept of original sin is less prevalent today and some of the children have been reburied and especially commemorated.

Talking to survivors from various mother and baby homes has uncovered a lot of sadness and anger regarding enforced seperation. Over 6000 thought to be mainly enforced adoptions were recorded in six mother and baby homes between 1950 and 1973, and many more children are believed to have been left to fend alone, living in so called industrial schools.