“Used to be Boomtown, now it’s just a ruined town…”
Great satire for Bertie, Fianna Fail etc… play it in high quality… very good… Thanks to Red Mum for the heads up…
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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The ANC, the IRA and the rise of influence of the left within Sinn Fein…
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
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B…B…Bring back Bertie!
Not relevant to this thread (sorry!) but I was wondering where all the nationalist-orientated bloggers have disappeared to of late.
After all there’s been lots to discuss:
- the Rosemary Nelson enquiry
- an alleged loyalist attempt to kill Conor Murphy
- the demise of a high-profile loyalist paramilitary
Strangely compelling. Not quite a Rita Hayworth dance routine but yet….
We’ve done three… but not the first two…
Of the two, I will probably do something on the Nelson enquiry… there’s some particularly controversial lines of questioning going on there…
Conor’s death threat, well… Happy for someone to do it, but to be frank… I’m very wary of that kind of story emanating directly from the politician himself…
Picador,
Truth be told, that all got fed up with Peter Baker’s shite talk and went elsewhere.