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Sunday Supplement
It being Sunday, we’ve all got time to consider and ponder things at greater length than during the working week, yes? If it’s good enough for the Sunday papers, it’s good enough for this guest blogger. So here’s the review section… Actually, it’s my introduction to a book published last year, Goin’ Down Slow: selected [...] read our review » -
“Unionism Decayed 1997-2007″ by David Vance: book review
I initially wrote this when the book was first published three years ago; whilst certain elements of it now sound dated, its basic premise that the period of 1997-2007 was a period of irreversible decay for Northern Irish Unionism can still be argued as a valid opinion. My own feeling is that it did indeed [...] read our review » -
Ian O’Riordan’s Miles to Run: An invitation to madness?
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] read our review »
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Comment on Euro crisis: “With that we buried the Maastricht Treaty, the legal basis for currency union”
on 22 May 2012 at 4:58 pm
An Ultimatum for Greece
Europe Raises Threat Level against Athens.
Officially, euro zone governments say they’re not talking about a Greek exit from the euro zone. But it’s a different story behind closed doors. Finance ministers meeting in Brussels last Monday threatened to evict Greece, SPIEGEL has learned. Meanwhile, Germany denied reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel called for Greece to hold a referendum on the euro.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-raises-threat-level-against-athens-a-834188.html
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Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
on 21 May 2012 at 12:28 pm
Thanks Michael for your post. I just wonder how many Catholics agree with you that attending Mass and going through the rituals are out of a sense of tradition. I wonder how many refuse to believe in transubstantiation like the member of your family you just mentioned, but never admit it?
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Comment on Willie Flags Up An Interesting Question
on 21 May 2012 at 8:40 am
William Fraser may be a political nobody, as I am likewise. However, I don’t know how I would react today if so many members of my own family were murdered by the IRA during the time of the recent troubles.
Background
“William Frazer grew up in the village of Whitecross in County Armagh. He is an ex-member of the Territorial Army, and a member of Ian Paisley’s Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.[3] He attended a local Catholic school. His father, Bertie, who was a member of the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), was shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 30 August 1975. Over the next ten years four members of Frazer’s family who were members or ex-members of the police or armed forces were killed by the IRA.[4] An uncle of Frazer’s who was a member of the UDR was also wounded in a gun attack.”
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Frazer&sa=U&ei=au65T431E4LG8gOi9uWrCg&ved=0CBUQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNGeSuNqWPOHn1k86NFjnFoYep6k6g
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Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
on 19 May 2012 at 7:20 am
Fresh blow for Cardinal Sean Brady as priests snub rally
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/fresh-blow-for-cardinal-sean-brady-as-priests-snub-rally-16160457.html#ixzz1vIHhbIzj
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Comment on Euro crisis: “Tis agoreuein bouletai?”
on 19 May 2012 at 6:06 am
Maybe Merkel should have a referendum in Germany to see how many Germans want Greece to stay in the Euro?
Angela Merkel spoke by telephone with the Greek president on Friday. Merkel ‘suggests Greek referendum on euro membership’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18121414
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Comment on Euro crisis: “Tis agoreuein bouletai?”
on 19 May 2012 at 5:48 am
Quite by accident, and without an ounce of intent or malice by Berlin, Greece has (like Ireland) become a German colony – and it is not a colony which has a future.
Germans only wanted peace and love – now everybody blames them.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/simon-winder-germans-only-wanted-peace-and-love–now-everybody-blames-them-7766899.html
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Comment on Paisley: I have nothing to apologise for…
on 16 May 2012 at 7:20 pm
Exactly sdelaneys, I wonder how many MLA’s abuse the use of the subsidised restaurant at Stormont. I remember when M Thatcher won her first election many MP’s (from all parties) still owed some £2 million on their food bills in the subsidised restaurants at Westminster. In her first week as PM she just wiped it clean. I wrote a letter to national newspapers complaining about the abuse of £2 million taxpayers money but it was never published. Waste of time.
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Comment on Paisley: I have nothing to apologise for…
on 16 May 2012 at 4:56 pm
carl marks: “I don’t know if JPJ is guilty of anything and i think he is entitled to a presumption of innocence but he must explain this properly.”
Explain to who?
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Comment on Paisley: I have nothing to apologise for…
on 16 May 2012 at 4:35 pm
carl marks: “and unless IPJ answers the questions he is asked then some of the mud will stick. or will we have another “I know of him” moment.”
So what, do you think IP will lose any sleep over what SF MLAs say about him?
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Comment on Paisley: I have nothing to apologise for…
on 16 May 2012 at 4:28 pm
Reader, no one has posted the assembly rules and regulations regards the use of (FREE ASSEMBLY ENVELOPES) and the numbers & cost that have been used by other MLA’s.
Without such documentation how can IP be judged?
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