[i]You forget that the IRA killed more people than everyone else put together over the matter of which flag flew over this place.[/i]
When people propose hanging IRA flags over Government buildings in the North for a week, then certainly bring that point up. For the time being though, shut up with your whataboutery.
I tactically voted for Alban. I’m not even sure why, now that I think of it. I was all ready to put down my ’1′ for the Greens, but just chickened at the last minute and gave them a worthless 2 instead. I think the tactic I was employing was to prevent 2 unionists getting in, even though I don’t like the SDLP or Sinn Féin at all.
I’m just back from Lisnagelvin PS in Derry. Judging from the sheet they had at my box (26 I think), there haven’t been many down at all. There were more people flyering than there were in the whole polling station [i]including[/i] the staff.
“Maggie, you are a total embarrassment. Why do you continue on with the “Unionist mob” stuff? Wouldn’t offend you if people said that a Nationalist mob killed those soldiers and Masserene? Apart from that, you are letting people who are using horrible, diversionary tactics to avoid discussing the matter completely off the hook. In every thread about the murder of Mr McDaid, you’ve started this futile and ignorant argument. Act your age. “
Maggie, you are a total embarrassment. Why do you continue on with the “Unionist mob” stuff? Wouldn’t offend you if people said that a Nationalist mob killed those soldiers and Masserene? Apart from that, you are letting people who are using horrible, diversionary tactics to avoid discussing the matter completely off the hook. In every thread about the murder of Mr McDaid, you’ve started this futile and ignorant argument. Act your age.
Driftwood, if you weren’t so relentless with your boring drivel, I’d assume you were just a WUM with a hilarious “more English than the English themselves” shtick.
‘news’ is often a polite way of saying ‘editor’s whim’ Given the shift from print to online and e-ink, maybe Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists was a suitable first first book for me to finish reading on the Kindle. Considering the economic pressures on the newspaper industry, his novel perhaps captures the spirit and soul of [...] read our review »
I’ve been catching up on some reading, recently. Most pleasantly surprised by John Drennan’s latest opus from Gill and Macmillan, Cute Hoors and Pious Protestors… It’s early days yet, but I was struck by this paragraph, part of a dissection of Fianna Fail near the beginning: One of the more fatal consequences of our colonial [...] 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 »
Comment on “..designed to organise a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
on 10 June 2009 at 10:05 pm
Reader,
[i]You forget that the IRA killed more people than everyone else put together over the matter of which flag flew over this place.[/i]
When people propose hanging IRA flags over Government buildings in the North for a week, then certainly bring that point up. For the time being though, shut up with your whataboutery.
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Comment on Polling figures station by station…
on 5 June 2009 at 1:13 am
I tactically voted for Alban. I’m not even sure why, now that I think of it. I was all ready to put down my ’1′ for the Greens, but just chickened at the last minute and gave them a worthless 2 instead. I think the tactic I was employing was to prevent 2 unionists getting in, even though I don’t like the SDLP or Sinn Féin at all.
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Comment on Polling figures station by station…
on 5 June 2009 at 1:07 am
I’m just back from Lisnagelvin PS in Derry. Judging from the sheet they had at my box (26 I think), there haven’t been many down at all. There were more people flyering than there were in the whole polling station [i]including[/i] the staff.
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 1 June 2009 at 11:36 pm
“Maggie, you are a total embarrassment. Why do you continue on with the “Unionist mob” stuff? Wouldn’t offend you if people said that a Nationalist mob killed those soldiers and Masserene? Apart from that, you are letting people who are using horrible, diversionary tactics to avoid discussing the matter completely off the hook. In every thread about the murder of Mr McDaid, you’ve started this futile and ignorant argument. Act your age. “
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 1 June 2009 at 11:29 pm
Maggie, could you answer the points I raised?
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 1 June 2009 at 11:12 pm
[i]
How about you act your mental age pl and F**K O*F
you c**k s***r [/i]
Touch a nerve?
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 1 June 2009 at 9:17 pm
Maggie, you are a total embarrassment. Why do you continue on with the “Unionist mob” stuff? Wouldn’t offend you if people said that a Nationalist mob killed those soldiers and Masserene? Apart from that, you are letting people who are using horrible, diversionary tactics to avoid discussing the matter completely off the hook. In every thread about the murder of Mr McDaid, you’ve started this futile and ignorant argument. Act your age.
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 1 June 2009 at 4:44 am
Driftwood, if you weren’t so relentless with your boring drivel, I’d assume you were just a WUM with a hilarious “more English than the English themselves” shtick.
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Comment on McDaid killing: Shadow of Robert Hamill murder looms ever larger with explosive new claims
on 31 May 2009 at 11:31 pm
Why is a blogger being attacked for relating a story printed in a newspaper?
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Comment on Some of those questions that just won’t go away
on 31 May 2009 at 12:36 am
Fr Pat McGroin, your ‘character’ is boring and pathetic, especially given the week that’s in it.
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