Page 4 - Time Forgot News Today

BAKE AND SHAKE. Fan Dave Rowe, who lives on the Big Island, reassured his friends today: Last night (Sunday 20th) Halema’uma’u magma chamber caused an eruption at Kilauea Volcano (it’s already stopped), that’s about twenty miles from here, and an hour later there was an earthquake which we experienced.  No damage to us or our home. The lava flow went south-west, well away from us. (2) PAY THE WRITER, REDUX. Inside the Magic, which specializes in covering Disney properties, quotes a...

BAKE AND SHAKE. Fan Dave Rowe, who lives on the Big Island, reassured his friends today: Last night (Sunday 20th) Halema’uma’u magma chamber caused an eruption at Kilauea Volcano (it’s already stopped), that’s about twenty miles from here, and an hour later there was an earthquake which we experienced.  No damage to us or our home. The lava flow went south-west, well away from us. (2) PAY THE WRITER, REDUX. Inside the Magic, which specializes in covering Disney properties, quotes a...

My last column before Christmas is a plum pudding from which I will pluck out some sweet plums and a few bitter almonds. First plum: the Cork Holly Bough, which carries a fine picture of a relieved and happy Micheál Martin with his family, probably taken after he was finally reunited with them after his long Covid separation. It also carries my modest piece on the politics of Niall Tóibín, who in New York once reflected that if Jewish comedians could make jokes about the Holocaust, surely w...