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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 Ian Junior claimed £10,000 in postage in his six last months in office…
on 14 May 2012 at 10:47 am
That’s a lot of licking???
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Comment on Martin asks who on the No side will fill Ireland’s €18 billion shortfall?
on 11 May 2012 at 10:52 pm
the shinners could chip in 26million less overheads.
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Comment on Without a new approach to Education, the Minister is condemned to micromanaging micro outcomes…
on 10 May 2012 at 7:37 pm
If parents can chose to have Irish language schools, why can other parents not chose their children to have the chose of going to a grammar school?? As O’Dowd says
There is a demand for grammar education, so why can the Irish sector be facilitated yet he is trying to remove the grammar sector which there is an obvious demand for???
“There is evidence of a demand from parents to have their children educated through the medium of Irish, with a successful naíscoil already operating in the area.
“I have therefore decided to award conditional approval of grant-aided status to the school and wish the school every success in the future in delivering a quality education for its pupils through the medium of Irish.”
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/minister-gives-goahead-for-irishspeaking-school-in-cookstown-16156595.html#ixzz1uUduFpeW
I hope the possible shinner voters, the aspirational working class and middle class nationalists remember this when it comes to election time?
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Comment on Licence fee freeze leads BBC NI slashes top journalist jobs…
on 10 May 2012 at 7:20 pm
Why are publicly funded employees getting in their words is “a generous offer”??? In these alleged straightened times why are they not getting the industrial average redundancy package???
“a package believed to be calculated at one month’s salary per year in employment”.
“It is a generous offer compared to what many people in industry are being offered and was more than I had initially expected,”
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/bbc-ni-axes-more-familiar-tv-faces-16156284.html#ixzz1uUYe7zv1
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Comment on “are you serious?” – redux
on 7 May 2012 at 9:50 am
Funny how Martin and the rest of the shinner gang don’t gurn or send back the pound notes with Her Britannic Majesty’s image on them, or do they insist on getting paid in Northern Bank notes??? Eejit???
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Comment on “are you serious?” – redux
on 6 May 2012 at 5:39 pm
How to derail an alleged confident Irish republican movement, stick a Union Flag on food products.
Martin what about all those UK jobs in Asda and Sainsburys, and Stormont paid in Sterling. Should the nationalists/republicans stop working for capitalist shareholders or work, and not take their Sterling wages?
After his latest rantings one thing we can be sure of Martin, doesn’t go to work on an UK egg.
If we put a Union Flag on potatoes does that mean we will have a new famine Martin?
And this guy has the cheek to berate Unionists in Councils and at Stormont. Pot and kettle come to mind Martin.
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Comment on “Police will consider the comments made by Judge Weir…”
on 6 May 2012 at 1:45 pm
Is this the PSNI’s, coming of age speech by Mr Justice Weir. It’s well over due that the PSNI started to act like a police force. Rather than the arm of social services they have become. Community policing is an excuse for local fascists with their own vested interests to influence the police.
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Comment on de Juana Chaos loses extradition appeal [in absentia]
on 3 May 2012 at 9:15 pm
Again another good decision today, however no doubt he has melted into the terror brotherhoods void probably never to be seen again.
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Comment on “Given these circumstances we believe the soldiers used reasonable force.”
on 3 May 2012 at 7:28 pm
Any reasonable person could only conclude that the verdict that was given was the only correct verdict that could be given. Well done that jury. They took all the facts and they concluded that the killing of 2 terrorists were justified.
Stating the IRA men’s own actions had contributed to their deaths and that the SAS had used “reasonable force” during the events that led to the fatal shootings.
“Mr Grew and Mr McCaughey put their lives in danger by being in the area of the sheds in the vicinity of a stolen car, which was expected to be used in terrorist activity,” the verdict stated.
“They were both armed with guns, wearing gloves and balaclavas and were approaching soldiers who believed that their lives were in immediate danger.”
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Comment on Smithwick Tribunal: “members of the PIRA are anxious the tribunal complete its work as soon as possible…”
on 1 May 2012 at 3:41 pm
Is this inquiry proving to be uncomfortable for the provos?
We better stop this inquiry with immediate effect as it could unravel the alleged peace process. And we would not want to make any provo or alleged ex-provo uncomfortable now would we!!!!
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