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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on “the Commission does not accept this as a genuine effort to increase human rights protections”
on 17 February 2010 at 10:48 pm
I take it you won’t be applying for the position then, ilvuni?
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Comment on “the Commission does not accept this as a genuine effort to increase human rights protections”
on 17 February 2010 at 10:19 pm
#2 One interpretation is that the 2 week care home initiative was a tactic intended to prove that NIHRC was already doing the job that a future Commissioner for Older People would be charged with. The COP legislation is due to be debated in the not-too-distant future, and there’ll be a few questions about duplication and cost-effectiveness between HRC, ECNI and the COP. In reality, it’s Age Conern and Help the Aged (who’ve sensibly merged) who’ve been doing the running on the quality and availability of care homes lately.
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Comment on “the Commission does not accept this as a genuine effort to increase human rights protections”
on 17 February 2010 at 9:54 pm
A minor point I’ll admit, but to be fair to NIHRC, I don’t think they ‘failed to notice the publication of the NIO Consultation Paper’ in their annual report. It’s just that the consultation started in November 2009, and the annual report covers the year up to 31 March 2009.
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Comment on McGlone: “I don’t care if Robinson and McGuinness are friends…”
on 9 February 2010 at 4:22 am
Chris
Regarding the All-Ireland aspect…
Given that the conference partly marked the end of Mark Durkan’s tenure, it was no surprise to see Brian Cowen paying warm tribute to him, and the SDLP’s role in brokering the SAA. While He did relate a childhood memory of helping his Dad do a collection outside mass for the nascent SDLP up North, there were no hints of link-ups or tighter collaboration now between FF and SDLP.
Meanwhile, Durkan seemed keen to balance these anecdotes with a reminder during his evening speech that Enda Kenny had helped out with SDLP election canvassing in Derry a while back.
Eamon Gilmore for the Irish Labour Party, on the other hand, was effusive about the history shared by his party and the SDLP. He spoke about how he was looking forward to ‘working closely’ with his Northern colleagues over the next two years as they prepared to celebrate the centenary of the Irish Labour Movement in 2012.
Would a more formal link between the SDLP and ILP be outlandish? Wouldn’t these Socialist International co-members be a more balanced fit in terms of political weight, as well as ideology than SDLP/FF? Has this been proposed before and I missed it?
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