Considering ireland got out of tough groups in every tournament we qualified for with the exception of euro 88 (very unlucky and there were only 8 teams in the tournament) I think we will have a good summer. One win and two draws are very possible. We’ve only lost one competitive game in four years. Enjoy your marching while the rest of us are having euro championship parties and barbecues.
What is the real reason that the dup want to veto this merger and link it to st marys? Is it because stranmillis is basically a protestant college and st marys is basically a catholic college and if stranmillis is merged into queens and st marys is not there will be no protestant teaching college?
As for Northern players opting to play for Ireland. Surely it is up to the individual himself to choose. What are the FAI to do……refuse to pick Irish players that want to play for Ireland?
“I dont think the FAi team have ever gone to a finals will less goodwill from Northern Ireland.”
Are you serious? I was in Estonia and Dublin and I dont think I ever met as many northern supporters. On the one road. North men south men comrades all
I like to help out. I think the ‘ulstersdoomed’ name should be kept with a tribute to horseman under the title. The demographic blogs are were done using data from elections, census data, yearly birth rates, yearly death rates, schools census, marriages in different churches etc. As this data becomes available in the future a blog would not be too difficult to compose if he’s previous blogs are used as a template.
RIP Horseman. I used to check his blog everytime I was online hoping for another intelligent insight. Really gutted that this cannot continue. Hopefully someone will pick up where he left off.
It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory that [...] read our review »
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 »
Writer Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He was as contrary as he was brilliant. Here is a brief In Memoriam from Vanity Fair (his outlet of choice since 1992) and, here, a longer tribute from his friend Christopher Buckley Stanley in The New Yorker. Better, perhaps, though to post one of Hitchens’ own writings in [...] read our review »
Comment on Tough ties await Trap’s troops in Euro 2012
on 3 December 2011 at 6:24 pm
Considering ireland got out of tough groups in every tournament we qualified for with the exception of euro 88 (very unlucky and there were only 8 teams in the tournament) I think we will have a good summer. One win and two draws are very possible. We’ve only lost one competitive game in four years. Enjoy your marching while the rest of us are having euro championship parties and barbecues.
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Comment on “Them and us” versus “all of us” with the Alliance party in the middle…
on 28 November 2011 at 7:59 pm
What is the real reason that the dup want to veto this merger and link it to st marys? Is it because stranmillis is basically a protestant college and st marys is basically a catholic college and if stranmillis is merged into queens and st marys is not there will be no protestant teaching college?
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Comment on The cat is in the sack!
on 17 November 2011 at 12:24 pm
As for Northern players opting to play for Ireland. Surely it is up to the individual himself to choose. What are the FAI to do……refuse to pick Irish players that want to play for Ireland?
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Comment on The cat is in the sack!
on 17 November 2011 at 12:22 pm
“I dont think the FAi team have ever gone to a finals will less goodwill from Northern Ireland.”
Are you serious? I was in Estonia and Dublin and I dont think I ever met as many northern supporters. On the one road. North men south men comrades all
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 17 June 2010 at 7:57 pm
exactly forget about the cost. I think the .ie domain is what the man would want
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 17 June 2010 at 7:07 pm
set up a paypal account. a fiver a man and you will have the .ie domain. 70 sheets isn’t much
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 17 June 2010 at 6:00 pm
anyone know how to get a website up and rolling. What about http://www.ulstersdoomed.ie
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 17 June 2010 at 5:25 pm
I like to help out. I think the ‘ulstersdoomed’ name should be kept with a tribute to horseman under the title. The demographic blogs are were done using data from elections, census data, yearly birth rates, yearly death rates, schools census, marriages in different churches etc. As this data becomes available in the future a blog would not be too difficult to compose if he’s previous blogs are used as a template.
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 16 June 2010 at 2:38 pm
RIP Horseman. I used to check his blog everytime I was online hoping for another intelligent insight. Really gutted that this cannot continue. Hopefully someone will pick up where he left off.
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Comment on Sinn Fein believes negotiations are now closed…
on 4 February 2010 at 5:03 pm
“That party wants Sinn Fein to make a concession not stated publicly yet”
What might this be?
Also when are the DUP assembly team meeting?
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