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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
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, built [...] read our review » -
Legion of the Rearguard – Dissident Irish Republicanism by Martyn Frampton, Book Review
Are you confused about ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism? Anxious about its existence and its seemingly increasingly deadly capabilities? Martyn Frampton’s new book, Legion of the Rearguard: Dissident Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2011) serves both as a primer on active dissident groups and a timely analysis of their historic significance and contemporary capabilities. This book clears [...] read our review »
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Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
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 »
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Comment on Slugger Awards: Building trust and credibility in politics
on 11 January 2011 at 2:22 pm
Dominic Bradley for his Autism Bill that will make a real difference to families and carers currently left out in the cold thanks to anomalies in education, health and benefits.
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Comment on Another conflict of interest in yet another NI Water review team…
on 11 January 2011 at 12:58 pm
“just who is Heather Moorehead….All very good but does that qualify one for an inquiry like this? ”
i don’t know who she is but she’s a friend of conor murphy’s on facebook.
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Comment on Attwood to become Social Development minister
on 12 May 2010 at 11:29 am
Sure hasn’t maskey already retired?
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Comment on West Tyrone – the Deeny factor
on 11 May 2010 at 11:56 am
Many voters in West Tyrone also buy the Fermanagh or Dungannon papers, send their kids to school in Enniskillen / Dungannon and do their shopping there.
The fall-out from the tribal headcount in Fermanagh South Tyrone seeped across the electoral boundary to West Tyrone, Dromore, Fintona, Trillick, Drumquin, Beragh, Pomeroy etc and simply scared floating and non-aligned middle-of-the-road voters.
Doherty lost support in hardline areas such as Carrickmore, Greencastle and Strabane as the tallys proved.
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Comment on “a grave injustice to the whole aspect of truth..”
on 20 January 2010 at 9:24 pm
I think i noticed Martina Anderson and Sue Ramsey offering support to wee Marty. I recall them calling for Ryan-style public inquiries into abuse at institutions in the north during October and November last year.
Their calls can be read on the SF website:
http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/17662
http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/17666
I think the lines “Victims in the North deserve to have their abuse and mistreatment acknowledged; there needs to be full accountability and restitution from the religious orders. They need to fully accept their moral obligation to the victims,” are particularly poignant and apt.
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Comment on Slugger Awards: The shortlist…
on 24 November 2009 at 8:19 pm
The question is – if John O’Dowd wins MLA of the Year and the Belfast Telegraph’s ‘Sit Down Sort it Out’ wins Campaign of the Year, will he present the award?
Three words Mick: make it happen.
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Comment on BBC’s weird sporting scheduling last Sunday….
on 27 August 2009 at 3:11 pm
Pacman, as much as I agree with your comment in theory, as an ardent red hand (gael not commando) I was at the match and taped the rte coverage as much for the spillane-brolly playground rivalry and to miss Jarlath Burns on bbc. Still haven’t brough myself to watch the macth again though.
I think David McNarry’s root anger is directed at referee John Bannon, as is my own. The better team won though.
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Comment on BBC’s weird sporting scheduling last Sunday….
on 27 August 2009 at 2:40 pm
John East Belfast, the majority of GAA people in Ulster support the Ulster team that’s still left in the All-Ireland competition, there has been a culture of begrudgery towards Tyrone in recent years facilitated by their sucess and a saturation in GAA coverage, so even the Tyrone begrudger would have watched the game to see them beat. so practically every GAA follower with more than a modicum of interest in the match would have watched, listened or kept up to date with the match in some capacity.
I would imagine they wouldn’t have watched it on BBC though, as the RTE coverage is infinitely better. That said, the GAA is still the largest partcipated and spectated sport in Ulster. So it’s only right that the BBC covered it.
On another note, at half-time in the match there was a super relay sprint across the Croke pitch involving the four provinces of Ireland to highlight the massive role athletics played in the early formation of the GAA. For McNarry’s information, all the participants on the Ulster relay time at Croker (they came second by the way) were from Ulster. How many were from Ulster at Berlin? i don’t know but I’m guessing none. I stand to be corrected.
I hope David gets to see the cricket today at Stormont, of course cricket is just complicated rounders. Rounders is one of the four official games of the GAA. I’ll leave that for another day.
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Comment on BBC’s weird sporting scheduling last Sunday….
on 26 August 2009 at 8:51 pm
Sorry I didn’t mean to repeat Jonrus, had this typed before i read his.
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Comment on BBC’s weird sporting scheduling last Sunday….
on 26 August 2009 at 8:49 pm
Here’s a direct quote from David McNarry:
“The World Championships’ Finals, which have been running all week, are sacrificed for a GAA semi-final being held in another country!”
Spot the irony? The World Championships where held where exactly? Outside Strangford?
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