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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Tweet Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… [...] read our review »
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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
Tweet A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, [...] read our review » -
Sunday Supplement
Tweet It being Sunday, we’ve all got time to consider and ponder things at greater length than during the working week, yes? If it’s good enough for the Sunday papers, it’s good enough for this guest blogger. So here’s the review section… Actually, it’s my introduction to a book published last year, Goin’ Down Slow: [...] read our review »
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 30 April 2013 at 9:27 pm
In the interview, Adams stated that both Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price were involved with dissident republican groups in their final years.
Price, maybe, I don’t really know, but is there any proof that Hughes was affiliated to such groups? If so, who?
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 30 April 2013 at 5:08 pm
Is anyone seriously claiming that Rabbitte was/is an OIRA commander?
Re. Thomas Oliver, what role did Adams play in protecting Scappatici over the years?
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Comment on Canning pleads guilty on 2011 Easter Monday charges
on 29 April 2013 at 11:48 pm
Full disclosure of one’s family’s political links and allegiances is critical, Pete, I agree.
Did Canning ever do any work behind the scenes on Sinn Féin websites?
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Comment on Sinn Fein undermining the sanctity of marriage
on 29 April 2013 at 11:45 pm
Alliance’s hypocrisy is utterly sickening.
Liberal moderates my arse. I wonder what their sister party makes of this?
And I wonder will Anna Lo now attack after every single one of her parliamentary colleagues in the same way that she attacked those – but in particular Mickey Harte – who dared oppose her pro-abortion crusade.
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Comment on Sinn Fein undermining the sanctity of marriage
on 29 April 2013 at 7:40 pm
43% of the SDLP parliamentary party abstained. The coward’s choice.
Nesbitt was similarly conspicuous by his absence: more please.
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Comment on Tweet like a politician … ideally, thinking about how it’ll be read and misread
on 15 April 2013 at 10:39 pm
“.. scraping in at the last count with his tail between his legs.”
In fairness, McDevitt’s solitary appearance before the electorate went rather better than each of Vance’s.
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Comment on Tweet like a politician … ideally, thinking about how it’ll be read and misread
on 14 April 2013 at 10:36 pm
Vance is a professional troll. I respect his views, but he seems to revel in vulgarity and ad hominems.
Some day, his fat fingers and inflammatory gob will get him into trouble with the authorities.
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Comment on Margaret Thatcher dies….
on 8 April 2013 at 6:34 pm
Looking forward to when the real story of Thatcher’s involvement in the negotiations around the 1981 Hunger Strike emerge.
Gerry mightn’t be quite so smug then.
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Comment on John McCallister: Our politics has collapsed and retreated behind old barriers
on 6 April 2013 at 4:02 pm
“…do nationalist contributors who seek “parity of esteem” by way of according equal status to, say, the Union Jack and the Irish Tricolour on public buildings (or no flag for that matter), see this sort of equal status / “parity of esteem” continuing in the event of a transfer of sovereignty of Northern Ireland from a United Kingdom to a United Ireland?”
If there’s ever to be a reunited Ireland then the six counties will continue to have a high degree of devolved power. So in what would formerly have been Northern Ireland, yes, absolutely there would have to be that level of equal status afforded to the two different flags and symbols.
We could begin now by renaming a few streets in Belfast that would at least give some recognition to its Irish nationalist past. Victoria Sq., Great Victoria St., Royal Ave., Shaftesbury Sq., Donegall Rd., Chichester St., etc. etc. – it’s all grossly one-sided.
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Comment on John McCallister: Our politics has collapsed and retreated behind old barriers
on 6 April 2013 at 3:33 pm
“…waiting for the day that we get to give a few people like you and your cheerleaders a good democratic slap for being silly.”
Dream on.
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