Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Unionist politics vanishing at Queens…
   on 18 April 2010 at 10:52 pm

   Ulick sounds like the only one who’s been to a university I recognise : )

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2. Comment on Unionist politics vanishing at Queens…
   on 18 April 2010 at 5:37 pm

   If the undergraduate population of Queen’s is so dominated by Catholics, how the hell does the Christian Union still manage to maintain its stranglehold on student politics? I couldn’t find anyone to vote for in the last Student Union elections who wasn’t involved with or backed by someone from the CU.

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3. Comment on Kung faces the Pope with direct responsibility and calls for a bishops’ revolt
   on 16 April 2010 at 4:44 pm

   Ha! ‘Narrow, biased and uncritical of the bigger picture’? Yeah right. I can’t imagine who could possibly think this reflects badly on it’s writer, or that media coverage of child rape and its concealment reflects badly on the media. Good luck winning back congregations with that old guff!

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4. Comment on “He was just following orders…”
   on 15 April 2010 at 11:02 pm

   It’s all very well for the ‘victim here’ to say it’s all OK because he feels safe now, but he’s not the only one who needs to be protected from these people. Things might have changed in the last six years, but as they were supposed to have changed some time before that, how is anyone to know?

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5. Comment on I have no idea what to do with my ballot
   on 14 April 2010 at 4:11 am

   I don’t think it’s at all obvious that most of Slugger’s readership would be ‘endorsers’ – most of its writers, possibly.

   Think a disgruntled nationalist has it hard? Try choosing who to vote for on feminist grounds!

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6. Comment on “have you seen The Wire?”
   on 7 April 2010 at 2:55 am

   The Andersonstown News recently published a series of vox pops on mephedrone in which one man’s argument for banning it was that it must be dangerous because ‘it’s a heroin substitute’. No mention anywhere in the paper that the guy was thinking of the wrong drug. Quality journalism!

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7. Comment on Britblog Round Up 257 and British anti innovation biases..
   on 30 March 2010 at 9:40 pm

   The Paul Sagar piece is refreshing. Endlessly shaming mothers who do the work of bringing up children at an early age for being irresponsible is like when teachers respond to bad attendance by shouting at the few kids who have bothered to turn up. The attitudes of teenage boys are the real threat to society, and our sex education is doing absolutely nothing to change them.

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8. Comment on “My God, who thought that up?”
   on 14 March 2010 at 10:59 pm

   Ach, I didn’t realise the Floozy was gone. What a pity.

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9. Comment on Bill Drummond remembers Belfast…
   on 10 March 2010 at 3:30 pm

   Nice programme, if a bit odd to hear about Belfast (even 70s Belfast!) as a metropolitan wonderland, seen through the eyes of a very excited child. Bet the tourist board’s delighted.

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10. Comment on “He was subsequently executed and buried in an unmarked grave”
    on 9 February 2010 at 9:09 pm

    So not only were women and girls left vulnerable to untouchable scumbags within republican communities, but those married to republicans were truly in it ’til death do us part’, like it or not. So much for protecting Mother Ireland, boys.

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