The Village Oak Tree

The Village Oak Tree

The Village Oak Tree is where the Irish storyteller comes to your digital village to bring you stories from the outside world. Join me every Wednesday as I try my best to find topics that are not plastered all over the main stream news pages everywhere you look. I research news from around the world, that despite not being in all over the front pages, may be important to regular people nonetheless. To wrap things up, I try to add a little imagination to your visit with a short story that might make you think. Sláinte

Episodes

August 6, 2025 33 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me.

This week, I want to ask what does a fascist United States looks like under Donald J. Trump? I offer a perspective that no one is talking about, that I think, based on his life so far, fits the narrative we're seeing to a tee. All I ask is that you listen with an open mind and think about this after I'm done today.

So, gather round, si...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me.

Firstly, I want to let everyone know that the experiment of posting one of my fictional Irish stories was a bust. Only a couple people liked it, and I lost two free subscribers over it so I won't be doing that anymore. I'll just save them for my next book.

In the meantime, it's been a busy week across the world. As I promised last...

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July 23, 2025 32 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your seanchaí, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me.

As I said last week, and in keeping with my theme of talking about the things that matter most to regular people, I have found some news articles that do have an impact on everyday life for most Americans. Today, I'm going to talk about the U.S. power grid. How it is set up across the country as far as private, public or a co...

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July 19, 2025 10 mins

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Welcome to the weekend edition (maybe) of The Village Oak Tree.

I decided to see about posting part 1 of a story I wrote a couple of years ago on my substack page, and I recorded an audio file as well. Which I'm adding here.

I hope people enjoy it and reach out to me to let me know. If people like my stories well enough, I'll present some more.

Thank you. I'll be back next week with my regular schedule. Sláinte

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July 16, 2025 39 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

In my continuing podcasts to push people into standing up against tyranny, as promised, I will be talking about global migrations today. I have a handful of news stories I've found in the last week, that show us just how cruel governments around the world are becoming with regard to all of these mass migrations that ha...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

In my continuing podcasts to push people into standing up against tyranny, I found a handful of odd news stories from around the U.S. and the world that I thought might peak people's interest this week. A couple of them are downright stupid from the Americans, and I also found some interesting stories about the middle ...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

Once again, the United States is at a historical crossroads. Trump and his loyalists are running roughshod across the country still, and the chaos is consuming everything, every day. The news feeds in the U.S. are full of little else but some kind of new Trump attention grabber, from the new concentration camp in the Flor...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

I'm back from my long vacation out west, to which, if you're interested in learning about our adventures, read my four travel blogs posted on my Substack page. During my long vacation, I thought some about the future of this show and I decided to redirect the show once again. I want to start focusing on the things that ...

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May 7, 2025 31 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week, I'm going to dive into religion and education, and how the separation of church and state is starting to become blurred in the United States, despite what the U.S. constitution says.

After I have presented my findings from this week's news feeds, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial bre...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week, I'm going to try and stay away from Trump’s efforts to become a dictator. There’re enough people jumping into that fray so I don't need to join them. Instead, I'm going to talk some more about ICE and their draconian efforts across the country to snatch up undocumented people everywhere, the great American migrat...

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April 23, 2025 44 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

As promised, I have my Canadian friend with me this week to talk about the war in Sudan. I will be bringing you some history as to why this started and where it stands today, and my friend Sam will be talking about the humanitarian crisis all of this has caused. Especially since Trump recently cut out aid money for the NGO'...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

Most of what I want to focus on this week, is about how scary Trump's defiance of the judicial system should be to all of us as this means he could come after any of us now for any reason he can make up. I have a lot of news stories that I found that I hope will wake people up to what's going on in the United States, a...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week I want to talk some more about all of the chaos taking place across the world with all of the tariffs, U.S. detentions of foreigners, Trump's ramping up of his war on climate change and a whole lot more.

Once I've finished telling you what I think about the things I've found, I would ask everyone to stick around th...

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April 2, 2025 42 mins

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week I want to talk some more about all of the chaos taking place across the United States, some positive news (not much but a little), and a call to action for any Americans who still believe in democracy.

Once I've finished with my essay, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week, I continue to talk about immigration, the environment, and this latest deal with these dumbasses working for Trump. There's a lot to unpack once again.

Once I've finished talking about the news stories I found for this week, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another cha...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

This week, I want to talk about immigration, civil rights and the economy.

Once I've finished talking about the news stories I found for this week, I would ask everyone to stick around through my commercial break to hear another chapter of The Priest by Michael Campi

So, come sit you down somewhere in a patch of spring...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Thank you for joining me once again.

I found a few news stories this week but as always, there’s just too much chaos going on around the world for me to delve into the front page news. There are plenty of other, more accomplished journalists, who’re taking care of that for us already.

What I did find, are a couple of articles about climate change. To which the ...

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Welcome to the Village Oak Tree again this week.

This week, I bring you another conversation with my friend Mitch from central Florida.

He had recently published an article on Medium.com about eugenics and how a certain group of Americans have been all about this science in order to create a master race right here in the good ‘ole USA.

We also talk long and hard about the state of affairs in the U.S., the world and right in our ...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

Here we are, entering the Ides of March, as the old saying goes. The sun has been shining a wee bit where I am, along with rising temperatures. And I'm a few days behind on my normal schedule this week.

I'm still dealing with home repairs caused by climate change this winter and I'm not done yet. But the work I needed to do to date did cause an interruption ...

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Welcome to The Village Oak Tree

I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill.

With the weather outside frightful all across north America again this week, and with all of the chaos Trump and company is still creating all across the world, the average citizens everywhere are starting to feel it.

One again, I have discovered new stories from across the spectrum to point a finger at how all of this is going to affect the average citiz...

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