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…if University education were universally available and availed of, the country would collapse in one generation
Tweet The words of Brian O’Nolan, variously Brian Ó Nualláin, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen and, of course, Flann O’Brien. That O’Nolan was referencing his own dissolute student days at UCD only mildly distracts from the prophetic undertone of his words: I paid no attention whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as [...] read our review »
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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
Tweet 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, [...] read our review » -
The Creative Class and Northern Ireland
Tweet As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic [...] read our review »
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Comment on Great. British team beat Irish. Royals rampant. GAA (mostly) delighted.
on 26 June 2011 at 6:47 pm
Daniel,
I’ve been trying it for ages – you can get The Sunday Game on RTÉ Player but only the following Sunday when you know all the results and couldn’t really be bothered watching it any more…
The best place to go is an O’Neill’s or some Irish bar.
You can listen to them on RTÉ radio usually – they don’t geoblock their radio streams.
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Comment on Ireland 2, Italy 0…
on 8 June 2011 at 10:30 pm
Mick, if your Ballymenaman comment was about Martin O’Neill, he’s from Kilrea in South Derry – I think he might even have been on the Derry minor panel at some point.
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Comment on Queen’s fears raise stakes in the Scottish game
on 30 May 2011 at 9:39 pm
otto, a black card is less severe than a yellow card (I assume Mick is following the GAA on this one).
Wait, why on earth do I have one?! I hardly ever comment here!
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Comment on Pan Unionist maneouvre thwarted
on 24 May 2011 at 9:44 pm
Haha. Well done Alliance.
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Comment on Championship season gets into gear
on 22 May 2011 at 3:01 pm
Please some success for Derry this year
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Comment on We’re here!
on 17 June 2010 at 9:20 am
Don’t know if this has been requested already but can we have an option to remember us when we log in? I always forget to log in and having to re-enter my details every time I visit the site is a bit of a pain.
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Comment on Horseman RIP…
on 16 June 2010 at 9:57 am
Very sad – really enjoyed his blog.
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Comment on There was one thing worse than Antrim’s performance…
on 6 June 2010 at 10:35 pm
I saw the Palestine flags at Casement Park today – I also saw at least one at Markievicz Park during the Sligo – Mayo game yesterday. Good to see the support isn’t fading.
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Comment on Some thoughts on collusion (Part 2)
on 2 June 2010 at 9:03 am
I couldn’t read beyond this bit in your first paragraph:
“It is feared that the problems around collusion will detract from the clear high moral ground which unionists (and constitutional nationalists) hold over republicanism”
You’ve got to be kidding, right? They may not have physically planted any bombs or killed any people, they just got the RUC/B-men/UDR/British Army to do their dirty work for them.
There will be no moving forward until everyone (INCLUDING Unionists) get off their high horse and admit collective responsibility for what happened.
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Comment on Should nationalism unify? And if so, why?
on 28 May 2010 at 7:36 am
Comment number 1 on the video made me chuckle for some reason.
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