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Retired engineering Manager. Born in the North West, living in Canada since 1981.
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Slugger Awards (Media) Pitch: Investigative Journalism
Joe offers the second of our short pitches for an award in the Media category. What do you think? Challenge it, riff off it, or offer an alternative. Send a pitch to editor@sluggerotoole.com, with a title and up to 100 words describing why you think it is important. more »
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The Imperfectionists (Tom Rachman) – an insight into a newspaper that’s maybe not so fictional
‘news’ is often a polite way of saying ‘editor’s whim’ Given the shift from print to online and e-ink, maybe Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists was a suitable first first book for me to finish reading on the Kindle. Considering the economic pressures on the newspaper industry, his novel perhaps captures the spirit and soul of [...] read our review »
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Lessons in Cute Hoorism: “Graft was accepted, for you were taking from the British…”
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] read our review »
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“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 »
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Comment on Coalition trials and tribulations over budget
on 18 April 2012 at 10:28 pm
..in trying to make people prepare for a possible crisis managed to create one.
Yes, I remember well back in the early 70s there was a poor sugar cane harvest somewhere and the government put out a statement that there were adequate supplies and that people shouldn’t hoard. At the end of the following day the sugar shelves in the stores were empty.
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Comment on For Nationalists Only: What’s great about living in the United Kingdom?
on 17 April 2012 at 3:38 pm
Mick,
What about us fence sitters? Can we comment?
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Comment on Belfast Telegraph to drop evening edition, while News Letter may (not) go weekly?
on 16 April 2012 at 10:02 pm
When I lived there it was simply an evening paper with the first edition hitting the streets around 3 o’clock.
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Comment on Clinkers, Rivets and Flatcaps: Celebrating Titanic and the Men Who Built Her.
on 16 April 2012 at 10:00 pm
Roy,
Clever question and well spotted. But a bit pedantic. We know what the author meant and is but a minor slip up in an otherwise good essay.
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Comment on OFMdFM: their hearts will go on
on 13 April 2012 at 10:19 pm
I’m a tad fed up with the number of programs about it on TV here. Especially the theories such as inferior rivets. I’ll let everyone know the real reason the ship foundered – it crashed into an iceberg.
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Comment on Orange Order trials new sponsored uniform?
on 13 April 2012 at 8:24 pm
Oranged you glad that wearing these isn’t compulsory.
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Comment on Who is Thich Nhat Hanh?
on 5 April 2012 at 4:48 pm
First paragraph says an invited audience.
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Comment on Bell first DUPer to address Fine Gael ArdFheis…
on 2 April 2012 at 10:00 pm
We’ve come a long long way from throwing snowballs. It can only be a good thing.
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Comment on Titanic: was it all right when it left here?
on 2 April 2012 at 7:47 pm
I doubt that part of the specifications for the ship included the requirement to be able to survive a collision with an iceberg.
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Comment on The Attorney General of Northern Ireland “accordingly considers it appropriate that the author and publisher of ‘Outside In’ should be punished for contempt of court”
on 27 March 2012 at 5:27 pm
I believed from the start that Hain’s remarks were totally uncalled for and suggested that he might be charged with contempt of court.
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