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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Masterplan for Girdwood: “back to the sectarian drawing board…”
on 23 May 2012 at 5:31 pm
Nice new housing development being built behind Toys R Us, beside Bawnmore, near Abbeycentre.
Some rather interesting graffiti on the wall the other day….
‘Loucals only, outsiders will be put out’
(yes, ‘Loucals’)
I wonder if Sinn fein and sdlp are aware
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Comment on Grammar schools and social mobility: a Northern Ireland contribution to the debate
on 21 May 2012 at 5:55 pm
“Why the catholic population of NI want to restrict their childrens’ future is a mystery to me.”
Why that disgraced church is permitted to have any say in the education of any child in this country is beyond me.
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Comment on “I do apologise for anyone who misunderstood the way I was using the metaphor…”
on 16 May 2012 at 10:08 pm
Cant Sammy Wilson take an axe to this cushy wee quango, then as well as saving a few quid, better used elsewhere, idiots like Bell and Anderson have one less chance to make arses of themselves.
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Comment on Martina Anderson to take over from Bairbre de Brun as MEP?
on 15 May 2012 at 8:20 pm
Are there no rules about terrorists becoming MEPs?
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Comment on 2012 Irish Open: Executive swingers
on 14 May 2012 at 11:16 pm
what a buck eejit.
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Comment on 2012 Irish Open: Executive swingers
on 13 May 2012 at 11:52 pm
Dont worry, Darren, Rory and Graeme will be returning their prize money to the people of Northern Ireland……
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Comment on Pay your rates by credit card: you pay 2% extra. Pay by debit card: LPS pay 29p.
on 11 May 2012 at 11:44 am
Pay your rates in full, up front, for an occupied property …. 4% discount applied to the bill
Pay your rates in full, up front, for an unoccupied property …. no discount applied to the bill
Where’s the fairness in that?
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Comment on Without a new approach to Education, the Minister is condemned to micromanaging micro outcomes…
on 10 May 2012 at 5:02 pm
ODowd came across as nothing more than a bullying thug in that section of the show.
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Comment on Brady departure in sight
on 5 May 2012 at 12:05 pm
Maybe he’ll be arrested before that…
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Comment on Cardinal Brady should go – in charity
on 4 May 2012 at 6:43 pm
Whats Brady’s role with regard to the Catholic schools sector in NI…has he an input?
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