Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
   on 30 April 2013 at 3:20 pm

   I think it was Malachi O’D who once wrote that it would be legitimate and editorially defensible to take every interview with an SF rep down the ‘what did you do in the war’ path.

   But he added that it would very quickly become sterile, boring and a disservice to the audience.

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2. Comment on Northern Irish politicians now commercially indemnified against libelling members of the public…
   on 18 April 2013 at 1:12 pm

   It will give broadcasters pause for thought as it means MLAs can now shoot their mouths off, pretty much risk free.

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3. Comment on News Letter relaunched with new fonts, new templates and perhaps fewer words
   on 17 April 2013 at 2:13 pm

   The much reduced story length makes it feel like a Metro free sheet. But as long as they keep doing stories about how the Trouble were 100% started by the Irish government the elderly farmers and retired prisoner officers who read it will be happy enough.

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4. Comment on DUP: “The lack of leadership at the top of Sinn Fein has been evident…”
   on 15 April 2013 at 4:37 pm

   The survey was 50 people – so the 12% is 6 people

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5. Comment on Tweet like a politician … ideally, thinking about how it’ll be read and misread
   on 14 April 2013 at 10:06 pm

   …case it seems like the key point was that it was a good old fashioned case of a lazy hack also being a malicious halfwit. Once a grown up at the Newsletter saw the ‘story’ it disappeared down the memory hole quicksmart.

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6. Comment on Tweet like a politician … ideally, thinking about how it’ll be read and misread
   on 14 April 2013 at 10:04 pm

   In the McDevitt

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7. Comment on NI = a hub of multi-millionaires; a dearth of patents; a society of minorities; differing community narratives
   on 12 April 2013 at 5:49 pm

   Here’s another one of those millionaires

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22113875

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8. Comment on What is the Civic Forum and do we really need it?
   on 12 April 2013 at 5:48 pm

   Not in a million years – if you’ve got such an important contribution to make get yourself elected.

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9. Comment on NI = a hub of multi-millionaires; a dearth of patents; a society of minorities; differing community narratives
   on 10 April 2013 at 8:57 am

   I love to know the source for that concentration of -multi-millionaires. Many of Norhern Ireland’s millionaires have turned out to be nothing of the sort once the inconvenient fact of their massive liabilities have been taken into account.

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10. Comment on Why is the BBC ghettoising NI regional outputs?
    on 29 March 2013 at 4:58 pm

    Ripper Street was shot entirely in Dublin – its been recommissioned, though frankly I’m sick of entertainment which features the carving up of women.

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