A bit of name calling can be fun to those who taunt- Any-one from the 26 counties making these smart comments are actually calling all who were born before partition like their grandparents- great grandparents british-they also think that those who died in the GPO in 1916 were british-no the joke is on any Irish person who calls another a british bastard- they are slagging their own family history- its a dirty brit history but it is still fact-
If Mr Gallagher could not handle 1 Question on live T.V or to keep calm under a small amount of pressure then both Martin McGuinness And RTE have done the Irish people a favour by making sure that Gallagher did not get the presidential job-
Now that the d.u.p have caught on that northern Irish players can play for who- ever they want to in Ireland, they want inter Goverment talks on the issue- in other words they think that the big brit goverment can or will sort this matter out- good thing that the Good Fiday Agreement is bigger than any goverment-
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our 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 »
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
Comment on “Police will consider the comments made by Judge Weir…”
on 5 May 2012 at 6:01 pm
No matter what snide remarks the judge made he still done what the police and community spokes-people wanted-he never allowed the accused bail-
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Comment on The red tide returns – Labour win big in Wales.
on 5 May 2012 at 1:21 pm
The Big Red Win-
With less people voting labour make more gains- thats good politics from their point of view-
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Comment on SDLP first to refuse MLA salary increase and rationalise consitutuency operations
on 30 March 2012 at 3:54 pm
The sdlp need to be more carefull what they ask for- the please sir can i have more does not work -
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Comment on Peter, Martin, don’t worry he probably says that to all “the wee countries”…
on 24 March 2012 at 11:06 am
Probably the best wee place to visit-come over for another Guinness-
Obama also told Cameron that he would like to visit wee england again-but he did not know who there saint was-
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Comment on “This is [partitionist] provocation in the extreme…”
on 22 March 2012 at 12:12 pm
A bit of name calling can be fun to those who taunt- Any-one from the 26 counties making these smart comments are actually calling all who were born before partition like their grandparents- great grandparents british-they also think that those who died in the GPO in 1916 were british-no the joke is on any Irish person who calls another a british bastard- they are slagging their own family history- its a dirty brit history but it is still fact-
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Comment on Shrek, RTÉ’s ‘bogus tweet’ gaffe and the problem of digital confirmism…
on 12 March 2012 at 11:28 pm
If Mr Gallagher could not handle 1 Question on live T.V or to keep calm under a small amount of pressure then both Martin McGuinness And RTE have done the Irish people a favour by making sure that Gallagher did not get the presidential job-
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Comment on Dev’s grandson steps down as deputy leader of Fianna Fail…
on 1 March 2012 at 11:20 am
Just in time for this weekends Fianna Fail party conference-
if any other big hitters are going to support O Cuiv this is where it will be made public- maybe some of them want O Cuiv has there new O C-
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Comment on Fianna Fail will vote Yes in a referendum on Fiscal Compact…
on 10 February 2012 at 11:49 am
Not exactly shadowing Sinn Fein- no, worse- Fianna Fail want to vote yes to but a shadow over the Irish people-
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Comment on Football eligibility row illustrates unionism’s inability to respect ‘The Other’ tradition
on 10 February 2012 at 11:33 am
Now that the d.u.p have caught on that northern Irish players can play for who- ever they want to in Ireland, they want inter Goverment talks on the issue- in other words they think that the big brit goverment can or will sort this matter out- good thing that the Good Fiday Agreement is bigger than any goverment-
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Comment on Stormtroopers on red alert for St Paddy’s Day riots in South Belfast
on 9 February 2012 at 11:39 am
Stormtroopers policing in an alternative universe- well they had no policing board-maybe thats why they lost to Luke and the force-
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