There’s been a lot of batting back and forth (involving amongst other things, an attack blog that increasingly has a strong DUP bent to it) and infighting between Ulster based Tories and some UUPers online… As Andrew notes it seems the Conservatives had called it a day… If you want a look at why, just go to Redemption’s Son who has been documenting the whole sorry mess (here and here), and just keep scrolling… Unnecessary fires indeed…
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
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 »
I don’t think it’s a pro-DUP site. It never struck me as coming from that perspective. In fact the owner, who clearly reads Slugger, has just put up a post saying specifically that he isn’t pro-DUP.
Looks like the CUNFs are having trouble agreeing on a name. Or should that be UCUNFs?
They should take a leaf out of the CIRA’s book. They originally styled themselves as CAC until, many weeks later, they discovered cac was Irish for shit.
I predict a new name.
Though for some strange metaphysical reason, both original names have a ring of truth about them. I mean, the CAC were and are pretty shit at what they do, and this new bunch strike me as, well, a bunch of CUNFs.