REV Brian Kennaway has been a senior member of the Orange Order for over 40 years. In an extract from his new book – The Orange Order: a tradition betrayed - in today’s Tele, he reveals how the Order in recent years has sheltered loyalist terrorists in its ranks and failed to discipline them. It’s an embarrassing catalogue of failure that has left those who still believe in the Order’s core values wondering what the organisation now stands for.
It took me a long time to warm to advertising agencies. The first time I worked with one I was working in sales management on Fairy Washing Up Liquid. I was due to attend a meeting at which I was to be told what consumers really thought of the brand. I remember my reluctance to [...] read our review »
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
MisFitz, tree-hugging is all well and good. But be warned, in Ulster you are surely bound, sooner or later, to be accused of barking up the wrong tree by those who hug “only the one true tree”.
To daily delight in the pleasures of Rostrevor must surely be a form of prayer in itself and enough to make one content.