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Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
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“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
“Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism” by Anthony McIntyre: a review
This was a book that I first reviewed at the same time as “Unionism Decayed” back in 2008. Like Vance’s work, it is the author’s portrayal of a defeated political movement or ideal and as a Unionist it was instructional to read an interpretation of the immediate post-Agreement period from the other side of the fence. [...] read our review »
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LOL! they’ll try anything to get people to move to the west!!
vacancy for a proof reader then
Not as funny as the letter to the News Letter a while ago which was signed by “Peter File”.
The latest digital edition of the Mayo Advertiser carries the headline with all the words in the correct order. It could be that the mistake was only in the print edition, but it is at least equally likely that Press Gazette and indeed Slugger have both fallen victim to a Oirish photoshop hoax. Any Mayo-based posters out there should be able to tell us the truth fairly quickly.
I think the joke’s on Slugger here…
Well, its no joke when the Mayo labour market sucks
I don’t see that being printed in Mayo. They’re sharp as razers in the west, and something like this would either be a prank or the last gasp revenge of a bitter editor on his way to permanent retirement. Funny but…
While we wait for news from Mayo, it can be confirmed that Comrade Stalin’s above quote from the News Letter is not only correct but still available online. The following comment, allegedly in support of the MP for Strangford, was emailed to the paper’s website and then used in a printed report on June 9. 2008. “Peter File from Londonderry said; `I for one am sick of the homosexual agenda being thrust down our throats’…”
I blogged this first I believe (correct me if Im wrong) and received an email from the editor to say that its a photoshop hoax. I can confirm it is a HOAX.
Saw this on politics.ie earlier today and one poster had given “Sculptress Gives Head To Mayor’ as another fine example of a headline with unintended meaning
It could be a genuine cock-up!
The west awake!!
It is a nice Photoshop job, as opposed to a blow…
Here’s another nice recent doctored pic, of the Obel Tower construction in the Belfast skyline.
“they’re sharp as razers in the west,” says John O’Connell, probably jealous because at least they know how to spell razors in Mayo.
The journalistic boob that made my day yesterday was the presenter on Sky at the Michael Jackson Commemoration who told us that “..we are here at the Staples Center to celebrate his death”.
Of course it’s a hoax, I thought that was obvious on the Press Gazette link but it is a funny one.
Well I’m going there anyway on the slight off-chance that it isn’t a hoax.
You obviously haven’t been to the Achill Head disco recently.
Probably the journalist was sent to an Irish language school and has ended up with a poor command of both irish and english. The real world live and works in english so he has to make the best of it.
That’s the future for children sent to these ridiculous institutions
The institution you went to yourself, Darrell doesn’t appear to have done much better by the look of it.
It’s obviously a hoax as such a headline would be hard to swallow.
ker-ching…and the boy gets a cigar!
This is almost as bad news as when the Muff Diving Club of County Donegal ran into funding difficulties.