Yep, heard the cheering from down below, now it’s all quiet because it’s all over… (till the pubs get out)… They just expect Healy to score and he does… Meanwhile, with a 1-0 against Slovakia, maybe some of the blatantly pernicious salami slicing of Stan will stop…
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 »
Writer Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He was as contrary as he was brilliant. Here is a brief In Memoriam from Vanity Fair (his outlet of choice since 1992) and, here, a longer tribute from his friend Christopher Buckley Stanley in The New Yorker. Better, perhaps, though to post one of Hitchens’ own writings in [...] read our review »
“IJP the GFA included recognition of the legitimacy of Northern Ireland and its place in the UK. It included no such recognition of the present-day boundaries of Ulster, which is not a legally defined entity.”
Are you not dizzy from all that spinning beano? Everyone knows what the boundaries of the four provinces are.
We could start asking – what flag is on Belfast’s “Ulster Hall”? How many counties does the Rugby team represent? When Ulster said no, how many counties where they referring to, or did the people signing the Covenant in Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal not count?
Posted by MACSWINEY on Mar 31, 2007 @ 12:31 PM
A work colleague who attended the game witnessed a steward in the Kop end intervening when dozens of fans at the rear of the stand sang a Rangers song linking Henrik Larsson and the IRA !! I will spare you the details but it wasnt the stuff of rocket science…
Up there with Sammy Mac’s Protestant Army ha ha ha.
Might have fallen for it if you hadn’t mentioned the ‘steward intervening’.