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Books
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Talking to a brick wall: how to make politicians listen?
Tweet It took me a long time to warm to advertising agencies. The first time I worked with one I was working in sales management on Fairy Washing Up Liquid. I was due to attend a meeting at which I was to be told what consumers really thought of the brand. I remember my reluctance [...] read our review »
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Voices from the Grave
Tweet Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is [...] read our review »
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A New Vision for the Catholic Church – Book Review
Tweet The oft-quoted verse from the book of Proverbs, ‘where there is no vision, the people perish,’ (chapter 29, verse 18) opens a new book by Gerry O’Hanlon, A New Vision for the Catholic Church: A View from Ireland (Columba Press, 2011). That verse could be considered an apt summary of the current state of [...] read our review »
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Comment on #Finucane: this report is a sham, this report is a whitewash
on 12 December 2012 at 7:47 pm
I read the summary of this report today and felt physically sick.
In the year of Finucane’s killing I spent and evening with the FRU. Lets just say it was not the most enjoyable of experiences and twenty three years on I still suffer PTSD and epilepsy as a result.
There must be others like myself within our community who suffered because of the low quality intelligence gathering of
these thugs, the so called security forces supposedly acting on our behalf.
What proof if any do we have that things have changed in the intervening years?
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