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Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
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 about [...] read our review »
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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday (Neil MacFarquhar)
With perhaps the longest title of any book I’ve read this year, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East gives an insight into the lives of people living in Middle East through the eyes of journalist Neil MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar’s father was a chemical engineer [...] read our review »
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Turas, by Colin Neill – a story of strangers in a strange land
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 29 November 2010 at 11:44 pm
Mark – the murders of MacCartney and Quinn, the northern bank robbery, to name just three incidents, did not occour ”way back when”. They occoured within the last five years.
Look at it from a purely practical SF perspective. Why, each time they start to make electoral inroads in Ireland, should they have to contend with republican involvement in such incidents sabotaging further electoral gains?
Don’t think I wish to see Sinn Fein excluded from the Dail. I WANT them fully participating in Irish politics. But, their problem for many years to come, will be the activities both recently and ”way back when” of republicans which opposing candidates WILL use against them.
Something truely fundamental will have to change within SF, or twenty years from now they will be responsible for a mess every bit as large as this one. And THAT will be yet another disaster for Ireland, one I don’t wish to see.
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 29 November 2010 at 11:34 pm
Mark – I don’t want SF in govenerment in Ireland because:
1 – Leading SF members such as McGuinness and Ferriss were leading members of the IRA.
2 – If Adams was’nt in the IRA, he still had no problem supporting their actions. And he’s SF president.
3 – People such as the above, who supported terrorist and criminal acts against the state, should have no part in an Irish government. They are just the flipside of FF.
4 – The IRA was at war with the Irish state, and SF were IRA apoligists and supporters. Why on earth should such people be allowed to govern the same country?
The ‘war’ might be over, but there are still unsolved crimes and unfound bodies out there. Republicans will still be ending up in court both sides of the border decades from now. Why should we swap one set of criminals for another in an Irish government?
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 28 November 2010 at 12:15 pm
For myself I think SF are far too preoccupied with the concept of a UI. They really need to break new ground if they are to become real players in Ireland.
Do you think it is an outdated concept that has been left behind by political develoopments of the past several decades? Or why it should matter so much more to the Irish of Northern Ireland than it does to the Irish of Ireland?
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Comment on Will Donegal create the bounce for Ireland’s Green Tea Party?
on 28 November 2010 at 11:55 am
Well, you have to try and see it from his perspective. And that perspective is why SF will continue to badly in the long-term in Ireland unless they get rid of the old guard and completly reinvent themselves in Ireland.
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Comment on Will Donegal create the bounce for Ireland’s Green Tea Party?
on 28 November 2010 at 11:49 am
Could you explain the right/wrong, wrong/right comment, Percy? I don’t understand it but it intrigues me.
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 28 November 2010 at 11:40 am
Really? How so?
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 28 November 2010 at 11:38 am
Good point, but it is the same ‘old news’ that played a part in SF’s failure to gain more seats in Ireland, so it really is an unresolved problem. In order to become a real player in the state, SF will simply have to jettiston much of the northern baggage and create a new identity down here.
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Comment on Donegal South West: Emergence of Sinn Fein Nua?
on 28 November 2010 at 11:33 am
Nor will moving candidates from NI to Ireland be of much help. SF need to get candidates native to the electoral areas concerned. Otherwise all they achieve is dividing their strenths. SF have to become a party of Ireland, not one with a leadership and electoral base situated in another country.
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Comment on Helen McKendry on her mother’s abduction nearly 38 years later…
on 15 April 2010 at 3:21 am
Good on ya, Helen. I want to be the first of all the posters here to give you a bulagh bus for speaking your truth in the face of decades of deceit. You and your entire family deserve justice. You day will come.
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Comment on “There is something innately toxic about a public position that demands of all of us…”
on 30 March 2010 at 5:31 pm
Does anyone know WHY he has denied it?
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