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Books
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“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
Tweet I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did [...] read our review » -
Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
Tweet It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star [...] read our review »
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Voices from the Grave
Tweet Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is [...] read our review »
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Mutiny is the disobedience of orders. I don’t see that there can have been mutiny in the UUP
sinking ship.
“The Fermanagh-South Tyrone MLA said people in the party had been working against him over the last number of days and weeks.”
http://www.u.tv/News/Elliott-quit-amid-build-up-of-tensions/c6b5fe90-8f84-4d9f-9d08-d1324e085197
News Letter opinion poll asking who would you vote for as UUP leader has produced an interesting result.
Danny Kennedy 23%
Basil McCrea 15%
John McCallister 0%
Mike Nesbitt 15%
David McNarry 46%
Interesting.
And a bit sobering for poor John McCallister
News Letter Poll update
Danny Kennedy 20%
Basil McCrea 20%
John McCallistr 0%
Mike Nesbitt 13%
David McNarry 47%
Maybe they should draft McNarry as Leader
David McNarry as UUP leader. Delicious!
Alex – it’s just an online poll and completely unscientific (not to mention easily rigged!)
Plus only about 8 people have actually voted on it…
I actually hope McNarry does stand, just for the laughs, he’d get a derisory vote after his actions of the last wee while.