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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday (Neil MacFarquhar)
With perhaps the longest title of any book I’ve read this year, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East gives an insight into the lives of people living in Middle East through the eyes of journalist Neil MacFarquhar. MacFarquhar’s father was a chemical engineer [...] read our review »
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Have we Learned our own Lessons? Book Review of John Brewer’s Peace Processes
Northern Ireland’s peace process has been promoted as an international success story. The Republic’s Department of Foreign Affairs has its Conflict Resolution Unit, which aims to disseminate the ‘lessons’ of the Northern Ireland peace process. And some of the prominent players in our peace process have travelled abroad to other troubled spots to share their [...] read our review »
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O’Toole’s New Republic – unfinished business or just a dream?
More as a trailer than a review – as it’s out on Thursday– I draw attention to Fintan O’Toole’s latest polemic “Enough is Enough – how to build a new Republic“. Fintan has been promoting the book vigorously on this side of the water, on Radio 4’s Start the Week and here at greater length [...] read our review »
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Comment on Garret, you too share the blame
on 28 March 2010 at 3:55 am
See Rory: you are wasting your time with your candles. She is ranting on about Islamic law and trying to equate it to the Vatican’s gentocracy. They just spout on without knowing anything.
Alias: The entire population of Carlingford was excommunicated in the Civil War. Learn your history of Rome before regurgitating the rantings of the Protestant Truth Society.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
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Comment on Garret, you too share the blame
on 27 March 2010 at 10:48 pm
So someone, Brian Walker, actually reads that old rogue’s column. Some time ago, the IT printed the same column two weeks in a row by this ex MI5 agent (his ma a Unionist from the Black North, his da a fluent Irish speaker and he a virulent opponent of the Irish language). Only person noticed the faux pas: the “good” Dr himself.
So the Vatican should now report to Drumlins Rock or no doubt the nearest branckh of the LOL or UFF.
In the big swing of things, Ireland is irrelant to the Catholic Church. Its hey day was from the opening of Maynooth to the late 1950s, when it spread the Truth throughout the English speaking world.
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Comment on “Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church in Ireland…”
on 27 March 2010 at 10:42 pm
Plenty of fine, irrelevant, bandwidth eating essays here.
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Comment on The DUP, British generals and the workers paradise of North Korea
on 27 March 2010 at 12:11 am
My. You are at it again. The French played a pivotal role in the Great War. And talking about the Great War, or the fate of the late French Queen have nothing to do with rabid, right wing sectarian minnow parties in the North of Ireland. North Korea, of course, has a connection to the Workers party and Prionsias de Rossa, who was never a member of OIRA or IRA. However, it too is tangential to your rant.
You exploit the readers by making them think there might be something of substance on your post on a day when tension in Korea is very high and when perhaps the Brits, who wil get their Waterloo in that area, had stuck their noses in.
The squabblings of minnow sectsrian, provincial parties is farce, not high or Greek drama.
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Comment on Saffron is a rare and delicate spice
on 26 March 2010 at 11:31 pm
Good to see them doing well. How is Gearoid Adams, one of their ex players, getting on.
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Comment on The Times they are a -charging
on 26 March 2010 at 10:44 pm
An Phoblacht charge for their online content. I guess a few Yanks and ex pat MI5 agents buy it. The Tines is not worth £1 in any format. It used to be a passable paper: early 70s.
The BBC is my favourite junk news site. I only go to papers with a lead or if I am following up something.
Let’s see how Rupert gets on here.
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Comment on Two Irish books shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
on 26 March 2010 at 7:01 pm
Both authors not worth reading. Next.
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Comment on An honourable farewell – Chris Mullin MP
on 26 March 2010 at 6:58 pm
“Chris had sat down, he may be best remembered for his part in uncovering the truth about the wrongful convictions of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4. ”
Sr Sarah Clarke and Fr Denis Faul cannot claim the credit? Gee. This is one of many cases Amnesty International and other similarly discredited outfits ignored. Appalling vistas and all that.
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Comment on Serious questions for Benedict from the US…
on 26 March 2010 at 6:55 pm
Seosamh: Thank you. In your opinion, the secular authorities who sent these children as slave labour are innocents. We had a guy here praising Cromwell. Go back to watching the Magdalene Laundry. It was not the women who bonked the “fallen women”. It was respectable, middle class ireland, Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter.
If you are ever in Melbopurne – it has a big Orange Lodge so you will be ok companionship wise – go to the main grave and look at the plot of the Christian Brothers. Look at their ages (most under 25)
It was in Melbourne I was first told by a RC social worker that the RC Church was a haven of pedos. But pedos, like all manipulators/bullies shop in certain quarters and htye would not have shown up on most ordinary decent RC radars.
But hey, better to read your liberal toe rag papers. The Guardian is a gardening rag for wooly academics and the NYT is no paper of record. (The Daily Telegraph, though a right wing anti Irish paper, does have real weight; their columnists are actually educated). Ganging up on the Catholic Church makes them feel liberal. These scum bags who launched Aramgeddon on Iraq and will do so again are liberal.
I am not saying you are a signed up UFF member. But your analysis is equally simplistic. Go do some reflection. Get thee to a nunnery.
That is Shakespeare, if you ever heard of him. Nunneries were notorious brothels in his day. Bu read some of your 19th century crap and you wil lfind that out.
The Sinn Fein case is different. That is a party/movement wanting political control and it has real baggage.
The RC Church is in need of reform. Celtic have started the movement by sacking their manager. But probably too late as the Old Firm bs is just that. God does not close one dooor (thumping Rangers) but he opens another. Don’t ask me what that doo is. Ask God. If he could be bothered to speak to insects.
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Comment on Serious questions for Benedict from the US…
on 26 March 2010 at 2:59 am
http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/matt-cooper/mcguinness-is-on-thin-ice-when-he-seeks-cardinals-head-on-a-plate-114847.html
|Matt Cooper has a good article here, linking Martin McGuinness, Adams and the attacks on Brady etc. See what he says about Ed Moloney’s book and McGuinness’s intervention on behalf of Liam’s brother Gerry, who was never in the IRA.
I wonder, in passing,given that Liam’s brother was never a “Volunteer”, would he have helped out if asked and was he ever asked? Better not ask the Price sisters.
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