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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were high [...] 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 “What kind of eejits do [these] people take us for?”
on 6 April 2010 at 7:05 am
I have great difficulty in understanding the “Irish-American” mentality. You come on here and talk about political prisoners and the Hunger Strike you should be looking at why your own country is illegally transporting, imprisoning and torturing thousands of combatants, suspected “terrorists” and some totally innocent people in defiance of your own Federal Law, International Law and common decency and humanity. AT THIS PRESENT TIME. Instead of talking about British occupation here do you never think about your own occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan or your governments support of Israeli terrorism?
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Comment on Mitre confusion
on 6 April 2010 at 6:21 am
As the Archbishop Of Canterbury has stated that he supports the further facilitation of Sharia Courts to deal with family issues for Muslim women and children in England, I have no doubt that his ill-thought statement was not based on concern for survivors of abuse – but on petty revenge for the Catholic Church poaching his flock without his permission.
He would be well-advised to take a look a the mote in his own eye, to look at what is going on in his own country and speak out about forced marriage, honour killings and female genital mutilation. It is astonishing that he continues crawl on his knees to the Imams and then has the audacity to criticise the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland. The man is a disgrace and is the personification of the arrogant, cowardly, self-serving hypocrisy of all organised religions.
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Comment on To “clarify media reporting…”
on 17 March 2010 at 3:37 am
sorry HYPOCRISY
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Comment on To “clarify media reporting…”
on 17 March 2010 at 3:31 am
I have just listened to Martin on BBC news. I have never heard such sickening hypocrasy in my whole life. The press are total cowards how the Hell can McGuinness keep his face straight?
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Comment on “I will only resign if asked by the Holy Father.”
on 17 March 2010 at 3:23 am
Well done Martin McGuinness – you are quite right. Any man who is head of a powerful organisation who forced victims into silence, covered up abuse and endangered other kids should RESIGN. Now will you ring Boston or will I?
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Comment on Straight up for St Patrick
on 15 March 2010 at 9:55 pm
These are the views of the AOH -John Dunleavy – 2006 March Organiser
“If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?”
Referring to the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Dunleavy said,
“People have rights. If we let the ILGO in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?”
NO JOHN – I THINK YOU SHOULD INVITE OUR MRS ROBINSON TO BE YOUR GRAND MARSHALL – YOU SEEM TO HAVE A LOT IN COMMON – unless of course you believe that the holocausts and lynching were not abominations.
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Comment on Straight up for St Patrick
on 15 March 2010 at 6:22 pm
The Ancient Order Of Hibernians have an absolute right to decide which banners and badges it will permit at its St Paddy’s Day Parades in Boston and New York.
If they wish to EXCLUDE Gay banners on the basis of religious beliefs they are required by United States legislation TO PAY FOR the extra policing etc required at such RELIGIOUS events. They don’t do this. The rate-payers of the Cities involves do.
Either it is a PUBLIC and secular event at which all should be welcome, deserving of city funding or it is a sectarian event at which these ridiculous “Irish”-Americans are portraying our country as a nation of backward, bigoted, sexist, homophobic, corn-beef and cabbage eating, morons, for which the AOH should foot the bill itself.
Gerry Adams attendance at one of these parades is almost as offensive as the Trimble and Paisley Garvaghy Road Jig. Why can’t our politicians stay at home on St Pat’s Day? of (all days)- too much junketing and not enough work done. Are they afraid of the reception they might get on the streets of Belfast or Dublin? Top Of The Morning to all you “Irish”-Americans out there.
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Comment on Paisley must tell us more about how the Spirit is moving him
on 5 March 2010 at 10:52 am
“O God in wrath take vengeance upon this wicked, treacherous, lying woman” lol
I am sure there are many people across the political divide, within and between these islands who would have no problem with these particular words about the Baroness.
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Comment on On the problem of consultation as “cynical tokenism”…
on 5 March 2010 at 10:31 am
There is no moral justification for a system which consigns two thirds of our children on the scrap-heap at eleven years of age. It adds insult to injury that the middle-class can ensure their kids get a head start by paying for a primary education totally focused on Grammar School entry. When this fails they have their kids assessed by ‘Independant’ (PAID) Psychologists who are happy to label them with ADHD and the connected Grammar School accept them through “Exceptional circumstances” Why are so many middle-class kids who attended the right Prep but got B’s and C’s in their 11+ in top Grammar Schools?
Good For Catriona – she should shut them down completely -and while she is at it she should remove all religious control and influence from schooling – especially that of institutions which have been proven to be unfit to protect children from abuse.
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Comment on “Yes, I read about them in the papers”.
on 5 March 2010 at 9:43 am
Mr Liam Adams and his lawyers are sadly mistaken. There is no place in Christendom will give him a fairer trial and a more sympathetic hearing than the Belfast Crown Court at Laganside. Indeed our learned Judges are second to none when it comes to dismissing juries, calling mistrials and acquitting defendants in sexual abuse and rape cases on technicalities. The last five survivors of adult rape and the last three survivors of child sexual abuse I attended court with, saw their (alleged?) perpetrators walk free. The pain and suffering they endured was lost in the midst of legalbabble about Shippey, Galbraith and “the plums and the duff” and precedents set in Trinidad and Tobago.
The fact that one of these defendants was a relative of a senior republican (WHO DID THE RIGHT THING IN SUPPORTING THE FEMALE MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY) helped, rather than hindered his case as it was insinuated in the court that the whole thing was a provie plot against him.
Excepting the fact that having to travel to Dublin may add further stress to the victim I for one would be glad to see him tried in Dublin – I have lost almost all hope for survivors getting justice in Belfast.
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