Advertise
-
Books
-
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 »
-
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
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 »
-
Comment on “Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism” by Anthony McIntyre: a review
on 19 November 2011 at 4:46 pm
” As I said in opening, what Tom presided over was inexcusable but he is far from the only offender.”
True enough. But I wonder how many others were involved in campaigns to free the downtrodden and oppressed?
Go to comment
Comment on “Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism” by Anthony McIntyre: a review
on 19 November 2011 at 4:44 pm
Sorry for being an ignoramus- but how do I access all the comments?
Go to comment
Comment on “Sample exchange from Stalker O’Toole yesterday”
on 9 April 2010 at 11:12 pm
You just couldn’t make it up:
Squinter who was publicly ‘bitch slapped’ by Adams writing grovelling pieces slamming those who discuss the data that backs up the reason for Squinter getting ‘bitch slapped.’
It takes a ‘special’ kind of person to grovel to the person who ‘bitch slapped’ them. It takes a ‘very special’ person to think that what he writes could ever be taken seriously again when he altered his whole belief system upon above mentioned ‘bitch slapping.’
Go to comment
Comment on Yes, “I never had a beard…”
on 8 April 2010 at 7:25 pm
Henry94,
Speaking of egg on faces:
Would you care to address and explain your (by now) widely circulated claim that Adams’ participation in a colour party is evidence he was NOT in the IRA.
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 10:34 pm
Again the obvious lesson appears to be, that when there is less flag waving-there is more visible work taking place. ( The old adage- we can’t eat flags applies).
It is further evidence if any is needed that sectarian politcs serves none of us- especially those on the ‘bottom rungs’ of the economic ladder.
Union and Mack, I agree with your analysis for the most part.
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 10:17 pm
So each and everytime what we come up with is ‘we’ elected them. A circular discussion indeed.
So where do we go from here. Is there anyone out there making any serious efforts to form non sectarian hard core political groups that are willing to take on the inept disgrace we are currently ‘represented’ by?
Anyone?
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 9:58 pm
Pip,
I understand how you feel really.
The problem is- this is what we are being governed by. Across the board.
Corruption, murder, rape of a child, child abuse ( let’s not forget that Meehan child abuse story that made the hair stand on our colective heads!), lies, deceit, treachery…… we could go on and on without even coming to one positive applicable attribute in the ‘assembly.’
THIS is what governs us. The levels of poverty in West and East Belfast and across NI are the result- along with bitter divisions, educational chaos, private sector collapse/non existence.
Inward investment? Where is it? The one real attempt collapsed- in failure at best- or due to corrupt, inept practises, at worst.
Carry On Politics.
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 9:27 pm
Pip:
It almost like being robbed and thanking the robber for not murdering me.
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 8:54 pm
Pip,
I just can not buy the argument that we owe GA or MMcG anything for ‘the peace.’
No offense to you persoanlly, because I see a lot of people saying it- I think it is an absolutely ludicrous suggestion.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say that Republicans owe them for ‘Defeat’ of all their aspirations and tenets.
Go to comment
Comment on West Belfast, social depravation and that fouled-up-in-the-works poverty strategy…
on 7 April 2010 at 8:31 pm
Kathy,
” Gerry gets votes not by his deeds but by making people think if they do not vote for him…the area will tumble out of control and the country will once again be gripped in fear and bombs.”
The politics of FEAR! As mastered by Dick Cheney and George Bush.
Who is Adams and what are Sinn Fein really? Does anyone really know? What do they believe in any more? What did they ever believe in?
Go to comment