You can hear the whole thing as kindly podcast by my old mucker (and newly liberated) Davy Sims… Thanks too to Mark Devenport (who nearly made the shortlist and is considered very highly in these parts!) Alan in Belfast (who I felt enough confidence in to introduce to a couple of members of my family!) with good summation of the night. Coverage in the Newsletter, Irish News and the BBC Online News are carrying the winners.
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] 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 »
Slight confession. Having misread the category name earlier in the day when I skimmed the shortlist announcement online while talking to someone on the phone, I told your sister you were a shoe-in for the award, and she should shout loudly in protest if you didn’t win, because you really deserved to!
She probably thinks I’m a nutter. Hopefully, a harmless nutter
At least the politicians and surrounding ecology have been encouraged to aim high and try hard to win next year’s Jobsworth title!