Irish News opens up to the virtual world!!
It’s been a long confinement, but at last the Irish News appears to be celebrating a new design by throwing caution to the wind and dumping the subscription fee!! Welcome back to the commons guys!!
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The peace process not such a good model after all
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 »
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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review » -
Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Are you sure they just haven’t temporarily screwed up, Mick?
Today’s site is still displaying on line subscription rates, including daily rate, although I was able to access articles..
We must wait and see…
well I paid a years subscription, so am I entitled to a refund?
The Irish News is a good read perhaps good enough to remain on subscriptions, especially considering all the wealthy nationalists in desk-bound NI public sector jobs.
Such readers have both spare money and time too
Good news, and in a further sign of the changing times, the Wall Street Journal does the same;
WSJ Online
Now if only the old lady of D’Olier Street or wherever she is now would hoist up her petticoats and climb aboard this new paradigm I could save 75 euros a year.
Pretty good site though the Letters should be up too.
Great to see An tEolas on the menu!