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Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review » -
Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
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Of the Old North and other Vanished Kingdoms..
I’m currently trawling through Norman Davies’s fabulous new tome – “Vanished Kingdoms” – Five stars in the (London) Telegraph’s review from Ben Wilson: All the nations that have ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand,” writes Norman Davies. “The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human [...] read our review »
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Comment on “They seek to intimidate and bully through the threat of violence…”
on 27 April 2012 at 9:57 pm
Somehow I feel this is a “postoperative” view…
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Comment on “They seek to intimidate and bully through the threat of violence…”
on 27 April 2012 at 9:55 pm
As a mother, there is no way on “God’s Green Earth” I would have taken my child down there…
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Comment on Why distinctions between public and private don’t really exist in new media…
on 29 March 2012 at 7:58 am
Actually, it’s one of the most bizarre committee meetings I’ve ever seen. Not so much “briefings” by either group, but some surreal version ofl “Dragon’s Den” ;-D
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Comment on Why distinctions between public and private don’t really exist in new media…
on 28 March 2012 at 4:58 pm
Get the impression there’s more to it than this.
Highly unprofessional of Coleraine’s Mr Mc Clarty to refer to remarks made on the guy’s personal Facebook Page.
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Watched the whole session, and there would appear to have been some kind of “disagreement” between Mr Batt and the Commander/Commodore of CRS.
There’s many a tale to be told about that organisation, it’s founder and his departure/”retirement” from HM Coastguard.
I’d be interested to know what Mr Batt’s privacy settings were when this remark was accessed.
Feel sorry for him, as the remark served no purpose, other than to conveniently undermine his proposals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7061258.stm
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Comment on Sinn Fein and new media
on 24 March 2012 at 11:26 pm
I’d have been more impressed if it had been Gerry and Martin at the front leading those wanes with wee leg warmers and Glee T-shirts
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Comment on O’Snodaigh’s Prints Dont Stack Up
on 3 March 2012 at 11:32 pm
It’s hardly a “significant” amount ,
Whats your problem??
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Comment on Declan Gormley launches multiple legal actions…
on 3 March 2012 at 3:19 pm
Hmmm, BBC once again failing to pick up on the fact that Mr Gormley was sacked on the back of a very controversial “independent” report “jointly commissioned by NI Water’s chief executive, Laurence MacKenzie, and the permanent secretary of the Department of Regional Development.”http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8563672.stm
Should the BBC item not state that “Mr Gormley and others at NI Water were *allegedly* sacked over the way contracts were awarded at the company?”
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Comment on Paying whistleblowers is sometimes in the public interest…
on 19 February 2012 at 10:11 pm
Surely the whole point of whistle blowing, is that it is a matter of conscience?
Payment means personal gain and and ulterior motive, and that at least is enshrined in law.
However, as Ulick points out the authorities are too often involved in finding the source of the damning information rather than whether there is any truth to the allegations….
“It is in the process of issuing legal proceedings against a former employee….The council received an anonymous letter last week which made allegations about the testing of Legionella in our swimming pools.”
I hope the whistle was blown before the “former employee” lost their job….
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Comment on Twentieth anniversary of Teebane
on 19 January 2012 at 9:42 pm
I haven’t commented on this thread, out of respect for the families and remembering a very dear friend murdered that night.
It hardly seems like twenty years since that devastating phone call and my father giving me news I thought I would never hear.
There must be justice for the families, but equally there must be justice ” for atrocities like Bloody Sunday, Rosemary Nelson and Pat Finucane.”
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice”
Baruch Spinoza
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Comment on Danny Morrison’s Position
on 31 December 2011 at 3:32 pm
“The presumption will be to release all records but any document that can be shown to contain “information prejudicial to the effective conduct of public affairs in Northern Ireland or to the work of the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly” will be held back for 10 years longer.”
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-exempt-from-end-to-30year-rule-on-documents-15049029.html#ixzz1i7uMc2QZ
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