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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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Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
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… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Comment on Nuclear options
on 28 January 2010 at 1:16 am
The Impartial Observer,
your forgetting that the EU would be the one helping to finance the situation but again there will also be the problem of those who would lay claim to the whole of Ireland and without political influence in unionist areas you never know what they’ll turn to
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Comment on Chancerism?
on 11 January 2010 at 3:34 am
West Sider
even worse for unionists if Westminster turns out to be a hung government but not that cameron was going to strongly support unionism anyway since his main policy seems to be blame labour and forget about everyone else, lets just see how that policy works out for them when they get into power.
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Comment on Which collapse scenario do you prefer?
on 10 January 2010 at 11:02 pm
personally I’d rather have a federal Ireland with a state that could genuinely make concessions to both sides but that would rely on a system in which nationalists and unionists can cooperate equally, the assembly pretty much proved that theory wrong
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Comment on Adams family saga being buried on Wikipedia?
on 30 December 2009 at 11:43 pm
This doesn’t mean adams was involved, wikipedia always waits a while for things such as this.
take for example the michael jackson page, the editors removed all mention of his death and refused to let anyone post it for a few days and anyway what ever goes on in wikipedia has no bearing on actual events, we all know what what happened and its not like wikipedia is the only source of information on his father’s abuse.
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Comment on Two more Irish bishops resign
on 26 December 2009 at 1:00 am
The vatican should purge the current system in Ireland, excommunicating all those found guilty and hand them over to the garda that would end this mess.
more catholic related news, the pope was attacked although they don’t know the motive at the minute
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