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The peace process not such a good model after all
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
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What has The Third Man got to say about Northern Ireland?
Short answer: very little, other than he enjoyed the environs of Hillsborough Castle, enjoyed working with the local politicians, and has Gerry Adams to thank for Bobby his dog. Peter Mandelson’s book The Third Man has captured media headlines in recent weeks as the Times serialised the most juicy bits. But what did he have [...] read our review »
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Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation. A book about how things are changing.
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland is a new academic tome by lecturer and researcher Lee Smithey. In the book the Pennsylvania academic outlines his findings based on 67 interviews over eighteen months with grassroots activists in unionist and loyalist communities and organisations. This is largely a book about men, even though they [...] read our review »
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Comment on Turnout thread – 9pm
on 6 May 2010 at 9:32 pm
Please note re Lagan Valley Dromore
Change – Box 75 827 possible votes not 881 as quoted earlier today.
Change – Box 77 847 possible votes not 947 as quoted earlier today.
Changes due to full number of names on voter list and those actually eligible at today’s date and my old eyes!
Slowish steady flow of voters in Dromore around 9pm
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Comment on Turnout thread – 5pm
on 6 May 2010 at 6:32 pm
Sam
I got a figure at noon today and it was out by 100 votes (they had recorded 215 when in fact it should have been 105! Worth checking with the station staff if you can.
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Comment on SDLP Leadership – Is Maginness’ declaration for McDonnell an indicator of ‘Big Mo’?
on 10 January 2010 at 4:05 pm
Wabbits ‘So wise up and shut up !’
The fact that you are on Slugger I assume means that you want transparency and openness everywhere ……. but not in the SDLP. I thought the SDLP were different to SF, extreme secrecy and all that that entails!
SDLP, don’t model yourselves on SF, or the DUP or UUP or……………….for that matter. Open the windows and let the fresh air in.
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Comment on Spotlight showing 10.35pm…
on 8 January 2010 at 12:44 am
Sptolight 10.35pm tonight.
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Comment on How secrecy bound Ireland to an unconcious repetition of its bloodied past…
on 28 December 2009 at 3:34 pm
Rory, perhaps you should ‘blush with shame’ a little more, for your own shortcomings, by editing your contribution as follows –
‘……abusive violent men[/women] and wife[/husband] beaters’
‘…..while their own children wait in dread for the returning clump of their drunken father’s[/mother’s] footsteps.’
Or, perhaps you are content that violent abusive women continue to inflict horrendous injury on children and men, by ‘cheap musings’ which reinforce the failure of our society to face up to the reality of female abusers.
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Comment on “When will Sinn Fein apply these fine principles to its own President, Gerry Adams?”
on 23 December 2009 at 5:27 am
Roy Carr said “This statement should be taken with a large pinch of salt…..”
Childline said “If you don’t think females are capable of committing sex offences, then you are never going to be looking for that.”
It is interesting that the experience of Childline accords with general findings regarding domestic abuse in Northern Ireland.
The NIO ‘Experience of Domestic Violence in NI: Findings from the 2005 NI Crime Survey Research and Statistical Bulletin 5/2007’, published in July 2007, says regarding gender on Page 7 -
“Research findings are contradictory, suggesting on one hand, symmetry with men and women equally likely to perpetrate violence against an intimate partner, and, on the other hand, asymmetry, with men the primary perpetrators of violence against women partners (Dobash & Dobash, 2004). These contradictory research findings not only have implications for academic research but also for policies and interventions.
Findings from the 2005 NICS imply that there is a higher prevalence of domestic violence among females than males (16% and 10% respectively.) The gender differential is less in 2005 than in 2003/04, 6 percentage points compared with 8 respectively (Figure 2.1).
While these figures indicate that females are more vulnerable to domestic violence (1 in 6) they also suggest that a relatively high proportion of males (1 in 10) are likely to experience domestic violence during their lifetime.”
In summary, some research says that women and men are equally capable of perpetrating domestic violence and/or the NICS figures are heading in that direction.
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Comment on “When will Sinn Fein apply these fine principles to its own President, Gerry Adams?”
on 23 December 2009 at 12:21 am
Just for a little bit of balance -
“A huge rise in the number of children calling to report sexual abuse by women has been revealed by Childline.
Over the past five years, the charity says the number of such calls has risen five times faster than youngsters reporting abuse by a man. …..
‘Many would find it shocking that any woman – let alone a mother – can sexually assault a child. But they do.’…..
The Childline report said the issue of female sex offending was not well reflected in policy, practice and guidance on child protection and offender management.
It added: ‘It is important that regardless of what is currently known about the numbers of female offenders, more is done to understand the nature of sexual offending by women [and to] raise awareness among the public so that they can report it.’”
http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8347589.stm
A Northern Ireland expert on the abuse of children told me a couple of years ago that the worst case of child abuse she had come across here was perpetrated by a woman.
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