Happy St Paddy’s, creep…
JUDGE Dredd fans wanting to look zarjaz this St Paddy’s Day might want to check out this new 2000AD T-shirt. Hat-tip to NI’s very own Comic Book Guy, Mark the librarian.
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What Ireland did right (and what it needs to do)…
It is difficult to believe now that one country recently sent 19 delegations to Ireland to study how well our economy was managed. The revelation that our model of economic management featured positively in political and economic discussion in countries including Estonia, Greece and Scotland may also come as a surprise. As we survey the [...] read our review »
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A New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of the [...] read our review »
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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review »
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Ahhh now this was a classic Dredd storyline – when he goes to the emerald isle.
Art by Steve Dillon and story by local hero Garth Ennis.
Ireland has been turned into a disney of diddly-dee and begorrahs and Dredd comes over chasing a guy on the run. Turns out though that a paramilitary group called the Sons of Erin (armed with spud guns capable of firing everything from mash to chips) wants Ireland to throw of the shackles of being a twee tourist destination and takes it place in what remains of the family of nations.
I always thought the cover would make a briliant t-shirt and hadindeed gave it to a mate of mine to make me a t-shrt from it……. and never saw it again. Grud!!!!
Not only a classic storyline, but also worryingly prophetic. The landscape in the comic strip was full of twee irish cottages in every field. What have we today – a landscape with a bungalow in every field….. Also liked the way Dredd ran over and destroyed St Stephen’s Green (all 3 blades of grass) on his bike.