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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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Titanic: was it all right when it left here?
Not according to metallurgists Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty whose research has suggested that dodgy Harland and Wolff rivets were at fault for allowing the Titanic’s hull to be ripped apart by the pressure of the iceberg impact. With six of the hull’s chambers exposed to the Atlantic waters, the “unsinkable” ship lasted less [...] read our review »
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Comment on POTD – Everyone wants to be Kate Winslet
on 6 April 2011 at 3:14 pm
Our greatest achievement is one of the world’s most famous disasters – I’m almost bursting with pride!
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Comment on REVEALED – EXCLUSIVE
on 6 April 2011 at 3:12 pm
He looks like he knows the way to Amerillo, dont know if thats enough to get him elected though
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Comment on Newspaper sales: could the Irish News overtake the Belfast Telegraph in 2012/3?
on 22 February 2011 at 4:05 pm
I wouldn’t dream of purchasing a tele these days its politics are rooted in the past and there doesnt seem to be any original or exclusive stories on its pages. Just rehashed stories from the morning papers which people have already read by lunch time. The editor needs to give his staff a boot in the arse and tell them to get out and get some content and not just cover the days events that’s what the BBC website is for.
And drafting in a bunch of dinasoars and bitter reject hacks from other publications isnt going to help.
Clarke, Breen, Moloney?? have we no up and coming talent in northern Ireland.
In my opinion the loss of the great David Gordon was the final nail in the coffin for the tele .
As for the Newsletter sure you’d be better off reading the Ballymena Times.
Say what you will about the Irish News but at least they’re still breaking stories and not just rewriting them.
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Comment on RNU and Óglaigh Na hÉireann. When deniability starts to look less plausible.
on 16 February 2011 at 12:15 pm
I agree with St etienne on this occaision why is slugger championing the cause of a bunch of would be murderers. Are ONH not the same group of people who blew the leg off a police officer not so long ago? Why is the Belfast Telegraph and Slugger defending their right to have payment for their crimes donated by a bunch of Americans who are living in the past.
And I’m still at a loss to understand why the Belfast Telegraph is carrying paramilitary propeganda on its pages
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Comment on RNU and Óglaigh Na hÉireann. When deniability starts to look less plausible.
on 16 February 2011 at 11:00 am
I have a question as a reader of the Belfast Telegraph can someone explain to me why I’m supposed to care that a bunch of Americans who seem to not have yet recieved word that the people of Northern Ireland voted for peace sent money to terrorist prisoners that was apparently stolen by other terrorists. Just wondering maybe someone could explain what the interest of this is to 99.9 percent of decent people who dont have any concern for the welfare of men who are trying to blow the place up.
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