Thursday, April 05, 2007
Paisley to have a street named after him, in Meath?
According to Noelle Jennings in the Meath Chronicle, the suggestion that a street be named after Ian Paisley in Trim has met with widespread protest, not least from the local council. The idea originated with local historian Noel French:
He added it wasn’t necessarily his first choice but did feel it was worthy of consideration. “It takes brave people to sit down across the table with somebody you dislike or even hate,” said Mr French.
he felt it would be magnanimous gesture to call the street after someone who would not be at all popular and that the people who took the brave steps deserved to be remembered.
Mr French admitted that the choice wouldn’t be popular in Trim but said that, if it caused people to pause and think and recognise the courageous steps that had been taken by Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams and all the other people who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, then it would be worth it.
Other names that have been suggested include St Oliver Plunkett Street, Butler’s Way (after Dean Butler who wrote a history of Trim), Finnegan Street in honour of ‘local character’ Jimmy Finnegan, Boru Street after Brian Boru, De Lacy Road in honour of Hugh de Lacy, Boyne Street and Stella Street after Jonathon Swift’s girlfriend.
Reader Gabriel comments: “Can we expect Adams Alley and McGuinness Mall to follow?”
Mick Fealty @ 11:52 AM
You have to wonder about the mental stability of people who engage in real-time revisionism of this sort.
It reminds me of what Milton Berle said about a tribute to Howard Cosell: “Why are we honouring this man? Have we run out of human beings?”
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 12:45 PMHow about Paisley Adams Street? :)
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:05 PMPaisley Street, strictly no U-turns :oP
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:08 PMI wonder if this street is on the road to Dublin?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:12 PMWill there be a pub on it?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:19 PMisn’t paizley adams a porn star in the us? google it, i dare you!
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:21 PMAdam’s Paisley Street?
Adams’ Paisley Street?Just trying to help the lousy, good for nothing easties out!
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:25 PMIs it a Cul de sac?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:37 PMNo thanks.
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:38 PMand she can be seen on the Showtime (regular cable station) series “Debbie Does Dallas Again” which is airing at the moment after the “The Tudors” starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry 8th.
She gets fired after about the second show but there’s some get shots of her… anyway.?!?!
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 01:55 PMSráid Pháislig ... hmmm.
But seriously isn’t Paisley as a surname interesting, being a scottish toponymic from Renfrewshire, being an anglicisation of the Gaelic - PĂ islig, which is in turn a Gaelicisation of the Latin “Basilica”, which originally meant ‘big hall’ but came to represent ‘important’ ... wait for it .. churches!
He’s even named after a church, or should that be a Roman Temple?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 02:06 PMI think they should call it Stella Street, not after Jonathan Swift’s girlfriend but after the BBC2 comedy of the same name.
You know the one with Mick & O’Keef working in the corner shop!Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 02:35 PMWhat next- renaming O’Connell Street ‘Cromwell Boulevard’...?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 04:02 PM... or call it Black & Tan strret as those fellas made a major impact on the town - there’s just as much rationale ie none.
What does John Unionist, err sorry Bruton, think of the re naming ? Isn’t Trim in his constituency?
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 06:49 PManonymous
John Unionist doesn’t have a constituency anymore. He is the EU ambassador to the US these days.
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 08:13 PM... and probably has to put up with a different breed of republican distainfuly calling him John European Unionist.
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 09:10 PMWatching Newsline tonight…
Paisley inviting Southern business leaders to Ballymena - Said business leaders announcing massive investment in the townity…
... southern shirt-making firm paying tribute to the Doc for being a ‘gentleman’ and ordering shirts from them....
...a female boxer from the South training in a Sandy Row boxing gym…
Is it just me, or have things taken a turn for the surreal?
I know the old cliches of the peace process are usually prefixed with ‘I never thought I’d see the day...’, but given the past week in pictures and in news, it is truly remarkable.
A honeymoon period for sure, but truly remarkable.
And the sun is shining…
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 09:33 PMI wonder if its shining enough to melt the ice in hell....
Posted by on Apr 05, 2007 @ 10:31 PMBallymena used to have a relationship in the seventies with a Connaught town which involved flying back and forth between the two towns. It was killed for some reason. 30 years late NI is growing up?
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 07:46 AMBoth political retards- Paisley and Adams-should have a street named after them - Sunningdale Avenue.
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 09:51 AMOn the subject of street-names ...
http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/street-names_project.htm
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 12:22 PMI’m very, very aware that John Unionist got the Wash DC job at the behest of the British Gov.
I should have posted “… in his old constituency?” but I was rushing to get the post in as a jab at him and Meath in general.
I might next post about their roads going thro’ the Hill Of Tara.
Ath Cliath abu!
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 01:34 PMI suppose everyone knows about Bobby Sands Street in Teheran
It’s where the British Embassy is, and it changed the address on its letterhead to a side street…
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 02:25 PMTypical, They dont want a prod about the place. Paisley was never a terrorist, nationalists harp on about equality, so can someone please tell me what the objections are ?????. Republicanism is a truly sick dog.
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 06:50 PM“Typical, They dont want a prod about the place. Paisley was never a terrorist, nationalists harp on about equality, so can someone please tell me what the objections are ?????.”
Well, I think it’s probably to do with people believing that a man who hands out the street name and house numbers where Catholics live to a loyalist mob so that that loyalist mob can then go and duly evict said Catholics isn’t a fit and properly person to be honoured by a society that doesn’t condone that behaviour. D’ya think?
Posted by on Apr 06, 2007 @ 06:55 PM
