andrumamor.nireblog.com

Caighdeán an-ard.

http://www.daithimckay.blogspot.com/

Concubhar Ó Liatháin at igaeilge.wordpress.com

There’s something very iffy about the whole tendering process. I’m heard that two of the tenderers weren’t even asked to take part in the second tender. I understand the second tender was advertised in the widely read (not) local newspapers

The tenders asserted that there would be no capital spending so the £7.5m mentioned in the MIP document would have been a massive unexpected bonus. Perhaps Minister Murphy will make a statement about this and other contradictions.

The current affairs dimension arose at the time of the Ian ‘I know of him’ Paisley jnr affair and in no time at all I became part of the story as well as one of its researchers.

The Rathlin Island ferry saga could well be part of a much more significant story as it involves two Stormont ministries and, apparently, Ministers and officials from Edinburgh and Dublin too. I’m intrigued by the studied disinterest of most of the main stream media

http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs.asp?bid=25
http://www.impalapublications.com/blog
http://modoherty.wordpress.com
http://nalil.blogspot.com
http://disillusionedliberal.wordpress.com

I’ve noticed that blogs which are termed as ‘political blogs ‘are a very small percentage of the blogs now being posted regularly from and about Northern Ireland. It’s good to see the Northern Irish blogosphere growing though now that I’ve over 100 on my Google Reader list I might have to miss commenting on some of them soon.There are also new blogs being added regularly to http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/Cybez which if your a blogger and fit the criteria you are welcome to join.

Basically. presumably Irish language blogs are not going to be included in this competition but if they were, I would recommend An Druma Mór – see above link – and iGaeilge, my own blog.

Thanks for the concurrence: much as I appreciate and applaud most of the other nominations, my admiration for Nevin is that he has been ground-breaking, especially over the last year, creatively campaigning without being factional. There, that’s two bites at the cherry.

As for the appended personal question: three weeks around NYC and Boston, then a week between Nice (for a wedding) and Piedmont (in part to look at railway trains). Hence the neglect of my own site, and failure to troll the likes of Iain Dale. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, or when spleen is restored to operating temperature and pressure: gripes likely to include airports, airlines, Blasted Boris and the all-pervading bloody Olympics.

I regard Nev as semper fidelis: pertinent, precise, well-written, immaculately-researched and therefore an opinion-leader. His deserves credit for any one of his greatest hits: the Causeway and Runkerry House saga(s), the Paisley premises empires, the continuing Rathlin Island ferry shambles …

And that’s only the activist side of an all-round site.

A good man, doing good deeds, in a decent way, in a tight little corner of a naughty world.

But it’s not clear from Mick’s introduction whether he’s just after sites or individuals. If the latter, I’d like to second and enlargen Chekov’s comment re those blogging on N.irish affairs at Our Kingdom:

Fair Deal, Damian O’Loan, Tom Griffin, Patrick Corrigan and (very occasionally) Ian Parsley all are delivering thoughtful and coherent articles analysing different areas of political life here.