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Ian O’Riordan’s Miles to Run: An invitation to madness?
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
…if University education were universally available and availed of, the country would collapse in one generation
The words of Brian O’Nolan, variously Brian Ó Nualláin, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen and, of course, Flann O’Brien. That O’Nolan was referencing his own dissolute student days at UCD only mildly distracts from the prophetic undertone of his words: I paid no attention whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a [...] read our review »
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Comment on The CUs election and Rowan Atkinson
on 20 April 2010 at 4:18 am
Jeffrey Donaldson might be the front runner but if by chance any disaster should befall him it would be the TUV not the CUs who would gain another seat.
What might that be Turgon?
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Comment on “The device is understood to have consisted of a number of containers filled with flammable liquid”
on 14 April 2010 at 3:48 am
do the continuity not know that this station is going to be removed because of the peace.
Posted by Michaelhenry on Apr 13, 2010 @ 10:39 PM
I think the clue is in the name…
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Comment on “his colleague Gerry Kelly engaged in a British-Irish Council meeting through such a mechanism…”
on 13 April 2010 at 4:52 am
As someone once said: “Much ado about…”
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Comment on “never any question but that the regulator would remain independent in relation to Quinn Insurance”
on 8 April 2010 at 1:37 am
Surely he could encourage his friends to have a dig-out or a whip round. It’s not like it hasn’t been done before…
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Comment on ‘the history of British justice in Ireland is a disgrace’
on 5 April 2010 at 4:29 am
Aye, Munster, coz ye wuz there, like.
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Comment on STOP THE PRESS! BBC own up to being the broadcasting wing of the IRA/UCUNF/TUV…..
on 3 April 2010 at 8:44 pm
Border Fox, I also don’t really like seeing English presenters on local NI news either; it’s just that they are nowhere near as prominent as the southerners have become.
Posted by smellybigoxteronye on Apr 03, 2010 @ 02:38 PM
Do you live in Royston Vasey Smelly? Do you shop locally in local shops?
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Comment on STOP THE PRESS! BBC own up to being the broadcasting wing of the IRA/UCUNF/TUV…..
on 3 April 2010 at 7:49 pm
And on a separate point, what is the deal with having so many southern newsreaders on the supposed Northern Ireland evening news?
Posted by smellybigoxteronye on Apr 03, 2010 @ 01:45 PM
Erm,…it’s called the European Union.
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Comment on STOP THE PRESS! BBC own up to being the broadcasting wing of the IRA/UCUNF/TUV…..
on 3 April 2010 at 7:10 pm
Harry J,
I guess you’re on double-time over the holiday period. Fill your boots!…just like…
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Comment on They’re all out to get me!
on 3 April 2010 at 4:50 pm
The “sliver” valuation makes the NAMA haircut look modest.
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Comment on They’re all out to get me!
on 3 April 2010 at 4:30 pm
Harry J,
You’re beginning to remind me of Comical Ali!
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