Brendan O’Regan
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington February 5, 2026. Photo: OSV News/Al Drago, Reuters. Sadly, the new war in the Middle East continued, worsened and widened last week. In fact, it was something of a hellscape when I woke up last Monday morning. On It Says in the Papers (RTE Radio 1) there was talk of rocketing fuel prices, “apocalyptic scenes”, “fireballs” and “rivers of fire”, as middle-east oil…
