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What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review » -
John Laird for Christmas?
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 »
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Hows that exclusive, huh? what?
Very funny.
You had me going there, you bugger!
Shinner Minister builds road for Prods in East Antrim.
Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time?
“Exclusive: Stormont clears bottleneck”
thought they’d finally managed to get rid of the shinners there….
No Sammy because it only took about 40 years for Roads Service to get round to it.
Those who were likely to be affected at the time of earlier proposals were wealthy factory owners, sitting in what now are sea view million pound plus houses. Owners then didn’t want plebs coming in and removing nice back gardens.
For all the big talk of unionist councillors in the area for generations, a cohort that has presided over the area only to make the grass grow in once busy town streets deserve to have a SF minister to put the gloss on it, as by doing so he’s done more than they ever did.
I want to hear what Shore Road Resident thinks!
Shinner Minister builds road for Prods in East Antrim.
It’s all part of the Trans European Network Project 13:
http://ec.europa.eu/ten/transport/maps/doc/axes/pp13.pdf
A cunning European Plan to sweep away the border. Of course Conor Murphy supports it!
Sorry Horseman – that’s the A8 not the A2.
I commute that way every day and wonder how adding three roundabouts to a route is going to improve things.
As it is when the road goes from one lane to two – that is quite often where another queue starts. All that will change is that we progress to a longer queue quicker and there is no net gain.
…. and in the meantime a few years of misery.