Friday, September 21, 2007
Top 20 Irish blogs, maybe…
Iain Dale has come back from his holiday and has published a list of the top twenty political blogs in Ireland. Let me put my hand up and say: guilty as charged. Trying to trap something as etherial as the best politics blogs on an island with two polities that for the most part have quite separate obsessions. Also, there are some blogs not on the list that probably do deserve to be there. I’d be glad to hear who your think has been missed (sorry Sharon, it was very tight!). Time to update Slugger’s ancient blogroll.
PS: I wondered whether to exclude Slugger completely, but decided in the end that it would probably have been construed as a false modesty considering that our traffic levels puts us at number one.
And a hat tip to the ghost of Banquo at the Irish Blogger’s feast, to Politics.ie.
Mick Fealty @ 01:50 PM
A well deserved triumph! Congratulations! But look who sneaked in at number five!
All doubting that the tradition of English Hibernophobia is alive and well, they should refer to the stream of abusive comments (most over the pseudonym ‘Newmania’) which have been added.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 02:16 PMThe Young Unionists appear? Obviously for comedy value over the last couple of week?
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 02:28 PM15th, eh? Thanks Mick - that’s probably quite generous (particularly considering my level of activity over the summer) but I won’t complain. I must try and get back into the swing of this blogging lark, sometimes it seems like such hard work.
PS - Does this mean EU will get a place on the Slugger blog roll if you do another update? ;)
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 02:42 PMCongrats, Mick.
Loved Newmania’s comment.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 02:56 PMHi Mick !
Celebrations all round here in ‘1169 Towers’ - we are listed at number twenty , and fully intend to use said listing in our attempt to ‘persuade’ that Mulley fella to treat us better at the next Irish Blog Awards ceremony.
But that will have to wait . Right now it’s party time… !
;-)Thanks ,
Sharon.Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:16 PMIt is very poor judgement to name a site which encourages racial and religious intolerance and hatred in this list.
However, I’ll balance that against a satisfaction that said site is acknowledged to be “in Ireland.”
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:27 PMCheers for the mention Mick. Hopefully now 90% of my readership will cease to be Latvian.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:33 PMOn misses by the way - A Pint of Unionist Lite has become one of my first stops each morning.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:35 PMDelighted to be included! And I hope you like the recipes too.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:48 PMI’ll not complain about appearing anyway :) Where does he find the time to read all these blogs?
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:52 PMOh, wait, Mick picked them. Now I understand.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 03:56 PMSocial conservatism??? Still, thanks for the mention
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 04:10 PMComhghairdeas Mick!
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 04:28 PMA site i’ve that also often breaks news stories (well in the Irish language media) is ceithearnacoille.com
Doesn’t allow comments though - does that mean it can’t be classified as a blog?
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 04:34 PMSĂ©amaĂ,
That’s a good question. My take is that a log or diary that appears on the web is a weblog or blog. I don’t think not allowing comments detracts from this. After all, no one comments on the Captain’s Log in Startrek and it remains a log.
I’m wondering now if “blogs” like Slugger aren’t in fact what used to be known as bulletin boards in the prehistory days of the web.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 04:46 PMI didn’t think my comments would have had such an impact!
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 04:51 PM“Time to update Slugger’s ancient blogroll”. Word! Really, it’s a shame, Slugger is such an excellent resource, unfortunatley if one were to use the blogroll to explore the (Northern) Irish blogosphere, one would find falls very short.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 05:08 PMMany thanks Mick, very very much appreciated and nice to be in such great company. Incidentally I like the term ‘old left’… accurate in more ways than one, at least for me! You asked about others, I’d always check out http://ceadaoin.blogspot.com/, http://dublinopinion.com/,http://notesonthefront.typepad.com/, http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/ and indeed http://organizedrage.blogspot.com/.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 05:33 PMGood choice Mick!
Side issue, just to arrange a bit of controversy like....Balrog-
“Social conservatism from a Sinn Fein perspective.”
Love it!
Chris will beocme a socialist the day he gets the OK from the parish priest.
But, to be fair, there’s genuine potential in the lad.
I suspect the Young Unionist Site has been got at by the Dupe Dirty Tricks Dept (lessons supplied free by their friends at SF Internet Control plc), either that or one or two of the activists have got Mein Kampf on their new semester’s reading list . Sammy Morrison’s site “What Need of Further Lies” was basically chased offline by these self-same scoundrels, which was a pity.Re ATW, a cracking good read, even though I disagree with almost everything written there. I don’t think it really classifies as an “Irish” or Unionist blog any more. With Mr McCann’s exit, there’s only one it’s going and that’s international and up
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 07:08 PM“With Mr McCann’s exit, there’s only one it’s going and that’s international and up”
I wouldn’t bet on it...unlike Ireland with a +14 handicap tonight? COME ON IRELAND!
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 07:35 PMThanks for the mention Mick but it’s seems unfair for ATW to be accidentally included with Irish blogs when we are by no definition Irish.
And as for Ireland vs France - zut alors but it looks even more hopeless for Ireland than a UUP revival! C’est la vie.
Posted by on Sep 21, 2007 @ 08:48 PMAnother case of foot and mouth in the UK
But Norn Irn is Irish - that’s OK then David?Posted by on Sep 22, 2007 @ 12:37 AMThanks for the mention. 14th is not a bad position when you consider the quality of the other blogs listed. Must take a look at the other top 20 lists to see if there is anything of interest also.
Posted by on Sep 22, 2007 @ 04:14 AMAlan,
Haven’t you heard? ATW is now graciously accepting being the 4th best 1/2Oth Irish blog position, bestowed upon by Mick. We are a clear number one in Donacloney however, thoiugh I am nominating Slugger as 4th best in the general Upper Bann area. Get with it Alan, you’re behind the game, bit like Ireland in that respect ;-)
Posted by on Sep 22, 2007 @ 07:59 AMTop spot in an Irish blog??? Not a great accolade, it’s rather easy to be honest. More challenging to be top stop in an Ulster blog, now that’s where you test how good you are.
Posted by on Sep 22, 2007 @ 02:19 PM
