Strange hands afoot? It seems that some members of the SDLP did have a role in helping the McCartney sisters get to America. A travel agency which is part owned by the party’s deputy leader Alisdair McDonnell made the arrangements whilst another unnamed party member allegedly acted as an ad PR for them in Washington. Something that they may now consider not to have been a very smart move.
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »