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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 Martina Anderson to take over from Bairbre de Brun as MEP?
on 16 May 2012 at 4:06 am
Seamus 60, what utter drivel.
Good of the SDLP to start showing concern and speaking up against injustice directed at Republicans, even if they are forty years too late.
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Comment on Enda won’t debate Gerry who in turn won’t debate Micheal on the Treaty…
on 11 May 2012 at 1:21 am
“Given the importance of this referendum to Ireland’s future there should be a live TV debate with all the party leaders, similar to the general election,” Adams said in a statement to TheJournal.ie.’
That was on Saturday, do keep up.
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Comment on Sinn Fein’s South Down selection sows seeds for a new post conflict generation…
on 25 April 2012 at 3:24 am
Ard Eoin, you are correct, Sean Lynch who was killed by the SAS on IRA active sevice would be turn….oh wait.
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Comment on Could Rangers make a virtue of their moral and financial crisis?
on 24 April 2012 at 1:00 pm
It seems the penny still has to drop with alot of people re the situation rangers are in. All this talk of ‘the club’ and ‘re-structuring’. The stark reality is the ‘the club’ is going into liquidation, of that I have no doubt.
Whatever entity arises from the ashes of rangers it will not be Rangers Football Club 1872. The chickens are coming home to roost for years of tax evasion and unfair financial advantages.
p.s Mick, might I suggest a modification to the crest you have at the top of your piece, it was one the Scottish media were keen to use when Celtic were in financial diffs and several times since but unsurprisingly are some what reluctant to use for Scotland’s establishment club http://i35.tinypic.com/23lmrls.jpg
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Comment on Being an all-Ireland party has its downsides – Sinn Fein’s inconsistency on property taxes
on 21 April 2012 at 11:22 pm
for text deleted by mods can I will replace with ‘ Brian Hayes is being economical with the truth…
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Comment on Being an all-Ireland party has its downsides – Sinn Fein’s inconsistency on property taxes
on 21 April 2012 at 10:54 pm
[text deleted - mods] Average rate in 6 counties works out at around £700 not £1200.
furthermore, in the South you have to pay for a number of things which you don’t pay for in the North eg school books, €300 for your bin to be lifted, vrt on your car, transport to school, and your septic tank emptied.
The property tax covers none of the above while in the North the rates pay for transparent services.
Absolute garbage to suggest that the Rates in the North is the same as the Property tax in the South.
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Comment on That was the ‘Rangers Tax Case Blog’, now for the film or the book?
on 28 March 2012 at 9:38 pm
If RTC were to win and I hope it does (sorry Slugger), who would the award be presented to as as far as I’m aware the blog is anonymous?
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Comment on Is the Rangers crisis undermining the false economy of Scottish football?
on 25 February 2012 at 12:31 am
lover not a fighter
The Rangers fans can’t say they weren’t warned, remember Hugh Adam the former Rangers director
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/adam_shakes_ibrox_pillars_with_warning_of_bankruptcy_1_595808
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Comment on Is the Rangers crisis undermining the false economy of Scottish football?
on 24 February 2012 at 6:36 pm
lover not a fighter ‘Unscrupolous people are robbing these clubs blind and spinning fine tales as to where the money is going.’
I think in the case of the huns it’s more a case of them robbing the tax payer blind.
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Comment on Many Catholics are questioning whether they necessarily have to be nationalist…
on 23 February 2012 at 5:56 pm
Now there’s a surprise. ‘Catholic church side with the establishment’.
‘It’s the way I tell em’.
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