Seems like a day that is almost historic.

Catherine Connolly is our new President and it seems accidental. The Left agreed on a candidate. Fine Gael had a poor candidate. Fianna Fáil totally messed up to the point where their candidate was on the ballot paper but withdrew over a an embarrassing financial lapse which should have been spotted with good vetting.

Today was Ireland at its/our best.

All four living Presidents were there and actually all four of them, Mary Robinson (seven years), Mary McAleese (fourteen years), Michael D Higgins (fourteen years) all advanced the story of our nation. Catherine Connolly can take us further along on our journey…I hate to call it our destiny.

The world is a mess. And a good time to stay clear of United States, Britain and of course Israel. A good time to be a neutral nation that is dedicated to Peacekeeping and opposed to Imperialism and Genocide.

Simply put…we are the good guys.

As Catherine Connolly begins her seven year term, I am 73 years old. And I will be 80 years old when she leaves office

So this Blog is not so much a re-boot. Keeping an Eye on the Czar of Russia will never reach the dizzy heights of ten years ago but I still have something to say.

And the North? The optimism of the Good Friday Agreement has passed. We have Peace and as I lived thru the 1970s, Peace is obviously a good thing.

Every day is a relentless stream of Bad News. Sooner or later, we reach the point of no return. Stormont will collapse. This is a Journal and I am maybe “journaling” rather than “blogging”….and if Journalism is the first draft of History, then maybe we can highlight the key events of the next seven years,