Sinn Fein’s John O’Dowd has rounded on the SDLP for having “have increasingly drifted from a nationalist agenda” because it has similar positions to the DUP on a number of national and local political issues. Meanwhile the Preparation for Government committee has been on a three day week, yesterday it looked at policing with the timing of policing power devolution and the degree and form of republican commitment the two thorny issues.
Interesting BBC article on an upcoming presentation and talk [Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, 17 August] by lecturer and broadcaster Stephen Price on the subject of his new book – The Earl Bishop. The 18th Century ”Earl Bishop” was Frederick Augustus Hervey, fourth Earl of Bristol and Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry. Hervey was also elected [...] read our review »
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
Spice Girl, you can listen later on to Alastair McDonnell on Sunday Sequence where he describes himself as a dissenting voice within the SDLP.
Ciaran Damery, ladies and gentlemen – apologist for the Omagh bomb.
John Maynard, I assume my acknowledgement of Mickey McKevitt’s pivotal role in Ireland’s most recent armed struggle for liberation, is behind your flawed and devious post concerning the slaughter in Omagh. Mickey mcKevitt has never been charged or convicted of any involvement in that terrible indiscriminate slaughter. You may also be unaware of the fact that Sinn Féin are (by far) the largest party in Omagh and the parliamentary representative for the area is a long time Irish Republican, Pat Doherty. So please draw conclusions based on an anylisis that is empirically validated rather that some (typical) Orange-type manipulation of facts designed to deceive.
So – you do recognise the court?
Merely stating a fact which is that nobody could pin the slaughter in Omagh on Mickey McKevitt. Not even the non-jury souther court or the Diplock system in the occupied zone. But why chabnge the subject? You accuse me of being “apologist for the Omagh bomb.” Well, if two non-jury courts in both jurisdictions are unable to pin the slaughter of the innocents in Omagh on McKevitt, then nobody can. Sure, the media tried, but the clinically depressed Harris and his friends within some anti-republican media outlets could not even do it.
So – who do you think did plant the Omagh bomb then?
Not Mickey McKevitt? That’s for sure.