A short report from the BBC’s Hearts and Minds last night. Reporter Diarmaid Fleming, at the SF Ard Fheis, waited to hear what Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams had to say about his performance in last year’s Irish General election.. and waited.. and waited.. Interestingly, there are only SF representatives from the “little semi-statelet” speaking on camera.
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
The point made at the end by the Irish Times journalist that those in the South are less well known is partly a product of the strategy of pushing the Northern-based leadership strongly to this point. If they want to seriously reverse that, then they they have to push Southern representatives more ie exactly what they are trying.
It might have a short term cost, but I think it will help in the long term.
I liked the BBC chappie claffing off Crowe’s primitive English, you know. I also note the Rathgar babe, Mary Lou, is putting on a you know accent as well. Lapdogs. O’Caolian would make a good FF county councillor if he ever cops himself on.
The bottom line is Ireland does not want Bloody Friday/Shergar merchants to run them. We are not Germans.
I’m not big in the Republic’s politics, but are the Shinners in the Republic as big into supporting terrorists and terrorism as the Shinners are up here?