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Jun 22Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

Excellent article, Stephen. You've expressed very articulately what I've been thinking for some time now about 'our' side, as it were. Too extreme to bring people with them....too dogmatic anyway as I feel none of us know it all.....and, as a result, too fragmented to offer serious opposition to the current regime. A propos of 'fairy' forts, my family had a very strange 'coincidence' after disturbing one some 50 years ago. Just south of Clonmel as it happens. My Dad and a farmer friend both had an interest in archaeology and a great respect for Irish heritage too. Their curiosity however, rather like Eve and the apple, led them to digging a little into a bank of the ringfort on the farmer's land. From what I remember, it was just a small hole. The next day, more than 1 of the farmer's calves in that field were found dead. Even worse, my baby brother became ill the next day and died. We always believed it was punishment for touching the ringfort. I later became an archaeologist but I, quite deliberately,

never worked on a ringfort.

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I believe there are activities that are benign in relation to ringforts but assuming dominion over them is a big no no.

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Jun 24Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

My 'logical' mind agrees with you but my emotional mind finds it difficult to accept that these events were coincidences. Of course, I was 8yrs old at the time and who knows what my subconscious absorbed/misinterpreted from watching these events unfold.

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Jun 22Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

I was told a few years ago that a long straight road in Iceland (Reykjavic maybe) is interrupted by a roundabout because the workers refused to dig up a fairy rath or similar.

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Jun 22Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

A chiaroscuro piece: the light, respect for tradition, reverence for the sacred and its boundaries as well as retribution; dark, shambling, blithering, slobbering, selfishness, eye for the main chance, revolting lumpen idiocy. Both inheritances: awe, spiritual sensitivity and thick, ignorant, boorish tramping over all that is numinous. All the imps, hobgoblins and pookas can be restrained with clear boundaries, discipline and resolute conviction.

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Jun 26Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

Sounds like much distraction. Nobody shud b allowed to speak- unless they can provide or attempt to provide something by way of a solution to the migrant harvesting as it affects this one area, or a strategy towards such a solution or a means to bring on board the convenience addicts & those intoxixated by cosy compliance. We can all rant - but this is a game of chess not an opportunity to showboat.

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Jun 22Liked by Stephen J. Delaney

Thanks for the article. It was depressing to read of that local meeting being hijacked like that, if I read it correctly.

As regards Common Law, I was very doubtful about it from when I first heard of it. Reminded me of the "Letters of Transit" in the film Casablanca, as if the Gestapo would refrain from locking up someone who had one! Common cobblers!

Miri AF wrote a very good piece on Common Law, I'll look for the link now......

https://miriaf.co.uk/the-law-giveth-and-it-taketh-away/

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Just brilliant, Stephen. Thank you. . In my (albeit limited) experience, we need small committed groups of do-ers, not speechmakers and grandstanders. No aspect of this struggle with massively resourced globalism is going to be easy. There are saboteurs in every gathering, some unwittingly, but most with full knowledge.

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Agreed. Back to the basics. We kicked ass in 2023. Back to that.

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