Saturday, December 29, 2007
New Years honours
Seems a couple of days early, but the honours list is out. Top of the Northern Ireland list is head of the Civil Service, as he is now Sir Nigel Hamilton. Next is Dame Nuala O’Loan followed by Elieen Bell and Evelyn Collins CBE. Duncan McCausland gets an OBE and UUP MLA Fred Cobain gets an MBE along with Larne DUP Councillor Rachel Rea, boxer Gerry Storey and Portadown boss Ronnie McFall.
Northern Ireland seems to have done rather well, with only Fermanagh lacking a representative on the list. I stand corrected by comment 25.
Michael Shilliday @ 12:37 AM
Guys, try making a substantive point, and leave the bile outside the door. I’m missing the Christmas break already.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:20 AMMick,
I think pointing out a head of the Equality Commission bending the knee to monarchy for a trinket as laughable is a valid point that doesn’t require deletion.
Your blog though.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:26 AMThe Queen of England lives of the people. So much for free speech. Christmas break? Long live censorship!
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:29 AMI’m happy to sustain hard hitting political comment. There’s an interesting point buried in there. But one man’s trinket is another’s honour. The terms of abuse in the first three comments, just trivialise the issue and make serious debate impossible.
Kidso, if you don’t like it you can vent your spleen on your own blog.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:37 AMare you referring to what i wrote and you censored as bile Mick? Post it back and let others decide,
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:40 AMMick,
No offence, it is not buried. A gong for services to equality is a joke. Even the Guardian would spot it.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:45 AMok Mick apologies from me.. I accept its your blog. I want to start a blog. how do I do it? Im not technologically minded.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:47 AMKidso,
blogger.com is how I started. Wordpress.com is what I run fealty.net on, and is probably where I would start now if I were starting over. It’s ‘open source’ and gives you better ways of organising things further down the line. Having said that, Guido runs the biggest political blog in England from his blogger.com account. If you want to keep it simple that might be the way to go.
Good luck with it!
BTW, I’m not discouraging you from commenting here. Just try and keep the points you make straight and serious.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 01:56 AMThanks. Ive a lot to say about life here. experienced a lot. have loads of opinions. dont mean to offend . want others to know my viewpoint. never thought what i said would be deleted though. Im no loss to Slugger in your eyes Mick. But I am. I await your knighthood. Slán leat.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 02:10 AMGRMA, agus oÃche mhaith! Tá sé in am orainn araon gabhail inar gcoladh.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 02:15 AMwere Gerry and Martin not remembered this year? oh dear. Heres me thinking that they would have got some wee something. like a MBE or CBE or Order of the Bended Knee for services to the Policing and Intellignce agencies.
but faith lads, maybe next year. until then, you will just have to survive on the old government salaries and expense accounts.
sure someone has to do it
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 04:05 AMInteresting that no-one in the SDLP got anything this year. I was amazed at the genuine anger of people whom I had thought of as fairly rightwing when Kelly accepted his last year and shot a hole through the SDLP’s claims to be a republican party.
Where was this decided? Did Durkan manage to talk sense to the NIO or is it more widespread throughout the party?
BTW Congratulations to those who did get decorated, particularly O’Loane who did give huge service to ALL the community.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 04:54 AMi asked this before but did’nt get an answer. It there money with these things?
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 05:04 AMheck,
I don’t believe there is. Though a lordship has the political implication that that individual can sit in the House of Lords. But check this site out:
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 08:54 AMThe only decoration I have any personal knowledge of is the OBE. Some years ago a relative of mine, a very rightwing conservative republican, was asked if he would like one. I’m delighted to report that he turned it down but the point is that they don’t force these things on people and they do know that certain sections of society both here and in Britain want nothing to do with orders of the British Empire.
Hence my query above about just who decided that there would be none for the SDLP this year.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 09:06 AMJunior’s father-in-law is a man of steel
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 09:08 AMHilarious that there are still all sorts of little-englander, class-conscious vulgarians ready and willing to accept these risible bits of tack - genuinely thought O’Loan would have had more style but there you go....
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 12:31 PMthe richest, the most pampered, the most unaccountable, the head of a family of parasites that feeds of the backs of the BRITISH working class and all for free....
gives out meaningless awards on behalf of HER PM.
Gongs for the boys, lackies, wannabbe aristocrats and all those rightwing civil servants who get rewarded for doing their highly paid jobs..
So much for YOUR British democracy..now would someone walk my corgis!!!Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 12:33 PMThe only one who really deserves an award is Nuala O’Loan.
Mark as for the EC Chief Exec, are you saying that Royalty is inequitable or the fact that the EC itself operates in inequitable way with gender and religious imbalances making the award weird?
Just trying to trick out what you mean....
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 02:56 PMI’ve no time for Royal families so I tend to look on these honours as “state” things which acknowledge the special things that some people do for the rest of us. People are entitled to accept them without being excoriated by those who have no time for them.
If you don’t like it, just ignore it.Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 03:25 PMMick, enough already; get rid of that video!
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 03:33 PMLib
Martin Bradley former SDLP Mayor of Derry got an MBE. Still on the sidelines of the SDLP, a quangoteer since leaving council, Arts Council, Chair of Millenium Forum in Derry. A very loyal member of the empire.Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 05:35 PMThere are some things in life that simply cannot be ignored, Joe, among them the denial of a knighthood for “services to the music industry” to the late Screaming Lord Sutch, who ought, had there been any justice been known by the title, Screaming Lord, Lord Sutch of Finsbury Park.
Incidentally, why is it I wonder that Sir Sean Connery is enobled for his “services to the acting profession” while Sir Cliff Richard is awarded merely for services to “the music industry”. It would appear that Sir Sean has been honoured for his acting ability while Sir Cliff is accorded acknowledgement for his contribution to the profits of an industry wherein he labours, much as the tea-lady or toilet-attendant at EMI or the beard-plucker at Virgin. Is there not some slight intended here, I ask myself, that somehow plays down, indeed ignores, Sir Cliff’s immense contribution to music?
Who among us can truthfully say that when they have accidentally tuned into “Mistletoe and Wine” on the car radio they have not immediately thought to themselves, “Fuck me! I better change over to some music quick !”
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 06:00 PMWhy has jack gallagher been left ou for his contribution to football.
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 07:08 PMIn the interests of accuracy as a Fermanagh man I feel it necessary to correct the error that the Erne County is not represented in this year’s list. Sir Patrick Haren is a Fermanagh man having been born in Brookeborough and is a past pupil of St Michael’s College in Enniskillen. Indeed I stand to be corrected but he is probably the first past pupil of that educational establishment to be elevated to what some would see as a distinguished position. However, I know quite a few of his former educators who would be disgusted at his acceptance of the knighthood as it would see itself as a great promoter of all things Irish exclusively and contemptuous of awards from British monarchs
Posted by on Dec 29, 2007 @ 11:08 PM
