Speaker censures Ritchie
The Speaker has censured Margaret Ritchie for her references to the Robert McCartney murder during a debate about Environmental Improvement Schemes in the Markets area.
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Propaganda of Peace: Media and culture during the peace process
Extract from Greg McLaughlin and Stephen Baker: The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2010. Political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new executive in May 2007, closing yet another chapter in [...] read our review »
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“I loathe Ireland and the Irish.”
In the Irish Times, Brian Cosgrove takes up temporary residence in An Irishman’s Diary in the hope that, with the lifting of European copyright restrictions on James Joyce’s major works, a greater familiarity with Joyce’s ”sometimes ruthless realism” may change the nature of the “annual Edwardian charade” that is Bloomsday. From the Irish Times The devastating cultural effects [...] 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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……. every time I see Ms Ritchie I think of 50p Currie.
I hope the next time Ms Ritchie is in debate with the DUP she launches a vitriolic attack on their association with Ulster Resistance and demands to know where the guns that murdered 100′s of innocent people are. I won’t hold my breath. No wonder that Unionists love the SDLP, they do their dirty work for them as the STOOPS spend most of their time attacking the Shinners. I wish they would put a miniscule amount of this energy into demanding that Unionists cease their bigoted stalling nonsense up at Stormont.