TwoMacs Podcast Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Ep 40 Part2

TwoMacs Podcast

Bernadette McAliskey (Devlin) Part 2

Still campaigning for justice and equality for all.
Bernadette continues her journey as she advocates for justice and equality, not least for the bombarded population of Palestine, and all those downtrodden by capitalist greed and the rise of fascism.
She recalls 'The Greatest' Muhammad Ali requesting to meet her and attending 'The Fight of the Century', Ali versus Frazier in 1971 at Madison Square Gardens, during an incredible era for heavyweight boxing.
Bernadette and her husband Michael were shot by loyalists, and she tells how, as she lay injured, a British soldier told her he was ordered by his superiors to allow the gang into her home and arrest them on the way out.
Out of such trauma came the bizarre story of her crafted walking stick that was lost during a Hunger Strike protest riot in Dublin only to re-emerge years later in a retired Garda officer's Bed & Breakfast in Tipperary.
Bernadette suggests the 'Troubles' years, as they were labelled, will reverberate through generations.
Producer of the TwoMacs podcasts, Oliver Corr reads a beautiful and powerful piece he wrote, inspired by a photograph of a mountain scene; however a goldmining company, driven by greed, may be set to destroy that idyllic scene.
Bernadette is also writing an insightful and highly popular newspaper column these days... and gives a nod to 'Ronan's Rants' back in the day!
Despite the rise of fascism, billionaire avarice, local and global exploitation and the Trumps and Musks of this world, Bernadette still believes in the basic decency and goodness of people... a decency if harnessed, can give everyone their civil rights.
And there's always the joy of making blackcurrant jam and 'the best occupation of all', spending time with her grandchildren!