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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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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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Ulsters Last Stand?: Can Unionism Move Beyond Insurance Policy Politics?
How has Ulster unionism arrived at where it is today – fractured and uncertain, yet dominated electorally by the DUP, a party that tells us it offers unionists sure footing in uncertain times? In his latest book, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2010), Prof. James McAuley from the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Education Minister refuses to provide colleagues with a breakdown of £2 Billion of funding for schools…
on 22 May 2012 at 10:26 am
Paul T
“Sammy isn’t up to the job” and ” is it cos he’s a fenian” just smack of bitter sectarian nonsense and an the inability to understand how normal politics works in any Government.
PS is the Minister a Fenian now? After all he is a Minister in a British Government and his party has helped copper fasten the border for the foreseeable future.
As for ” its a feeling of inferiority”, perhaps its actually a SF feeling of superiority – after all, now they have embraced their Brit identity, it comes naturally as part of the package so just relax and enjoy the benefits of belonging to a major country.
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Comment on Sectarianism in Northern Ireland is common (and popular) across all classes…
on 21 May 2012 at 3:15 pm
“t’s like a drug” ….but its themuns fault for gettin us all addicted
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Comment on Education Minister refuses to provide colleagues with a breakdown of £2 Billion of funding for schools…
on 21 May 2012 at 11:07 am
Is this news? Twas ever thus.
Ministers want the flexibility to hoodwink Department of Finance and tell the porkies they want to tell (while waving the odd shroud)
Finance want to control, control control and lock them into a straightjacket
And on both sides Senior Civil Servants will be sidling up to their bosses saying …’he’s getting one over on you – dont let him get away with that”
Classic Yes Minister stuff and a depressing sign of normality!
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Comment on Stormont not so keen on transparency or the FOI Act…
on 21 May 2012 at 10:30 am
I totally agree
Even more important, sunlight is one of the greatest public disinfectants – and we certainly need some at Stormont and in our Councils
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Comment on Stormont not so keen on transparency or the FOI Act…
on 21 May 2012 at 9:55 am
Why should we be permitted to ask impertinent questions of our betters?
But then again, are lease minders licensed? And who issued the licence?
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Comment on The Hain contempt case: a warning to England from Northern Ireland
on 20 May 2012 at 7:09 am
“he has now been returned to back benches”
Surely “saved face on being sacked by going to spend more time with his barrage”
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Comment on The Hain contempt case: a warning to England from Northern Ireland
on 20 May 2012 at 7:08 am
” I doubt if England ”
Forgive me but I doubt is 80% of England knows who Hain is
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Comment on The Hain contempt case: a warning to England from Northern Ireland
on 19 May 2012 at 12:46 pm
Perhaps even more of a warning to our own dear political class where behind the doors appointments and cronyism are the order of the day. Public appointments have given way to Ministerial appointments with decisions made by Ministers doling out little pressies to their mates, supporters and (for all we we know as the figures are kept secret) party donors
Its a corrupt little cess pit….so dont be surprised by anything
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Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
on 18 May 2012 at 1:41 pm
“If it wasn’t so bloody boring maybe we’d have kept going in greater numbers”
or such complete nonsense?
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Comment on Sinn Fein’s split political personality north and south…
on 16 May 2012 at 8:33 am
Look its very simple. SF are just tacitly acknowledging that we are two different countries.
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