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Death of Dolours Price – opens up possibility that her taped oral history will be published (or not)
Tweet Dolours Price – sister, mother, bomber, prisoner and a thorn in Gerry Adams’ side – died in her Malahide home on Wednesday night. The Guardian’s Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald writes: Price was involved in a car bombing at the Old Bailey in 1973, which injured more than 200 people and may have led to [...] read our review » -
Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
Tweet It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star [...] read our review »
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The Irish political journalist’s problem with partial disclosure…
Tweet The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. [...] read our review »
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Comment on St Patricks Day: Celebrating what it is to be Irish everywhere except NI (where we can’t agree what it means)
on 19 March 2013 at 7:06 pm
No St Patricks Day Band Parade (and no local bomb scares either) this year. That’s for that same reason; it’s on a sunday
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It was held a couple of hours before.
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Comment on A manifesto for enlightened Catholicism
on 11 March 2013 at 5:53 pm
I backed a 50/1 shot that an atheist website was tipping— hes now 125/1. On a loser even if he wins:(
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Comment on Brid Rogers and the case of SDLP leading the opposition…
on 4 March 2013 at 7:12 pm
————but he but he elides the point that he and Sinn Fein are also behaving as ‘the government’)
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What does that mean, in layman’s speak? Other than you’ve been at the dictionary again..
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Comment on Basil and John need a name for their New Party: Can you help?
on 28 February 2013 at 8:34 pm
I was thinking, the Forward Together Party, but it disnae look good abbreviated.
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Comment on Friday Thread: Your (TASTEFUL) captions please?
on 15 February 2013 at 7:11 pm
There’a a foal in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
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Comment on FFS, Give Us A HUG!!!
on 18 January 2013 at 12:36 pm
“And we were only playing the Beach Boys, FS”
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Comment on #Flegs: “That’s what we, in many instances, choose to see…”
on 17 January 2013 at 4:10 pm
“We happily fly the flags of all our friends and allies outside hotels and business,”
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Indeed, and up here we fly the tricolour outside hotels and businesses,don’t we?
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Comment on When all your readers are rapidly becoming self directed autodidacts?
on 16 January 2013 at 9:05 pm
already Amazon are reporting that Kindle users purchase 5 times as many books as traditional read
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Probably because traditional readers buy second hand as well as new, something Kindle don’t offer, and Oxfam can’t.
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Comment on Micheál Martin: “If the Executive is not making progress on child poverty, or economic inactivity, or sectarianism”
on 16 January 2013 at 5:59 pm
I think that’s why Martin’s comments have some considerable political valence.
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I’m really lost with this word “valence”, it’s the second time I’ve seen it used on this blog in recent days. Does it mean “relevance” in that context?
Excuse my ignorance.
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Comment on “In Ireland, it is not in our culture to eat horsemeat and therefore, we do not expect to find it in a burger…”
on 15 January 2013 at 9:48 pm
Can we expect a jihad against Tesco?
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