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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 2012 Irish Open: Executive swingers
on 15 May 2012 at 1:24 pm
What a miserable bunch you all are! Good job you guys are not in charge or NI would be forty shades of grey. There’ll be no crowd until the crowd gathers, as someone better than me once said. Events like these are the equivalent of a street performer setting out his equipment in elaborate fashion. Power on, I say.
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Comment on Hearts and Minds: Paramilitaries and ‘the table of accountability’
on 28 February 2012 at 5:32 pm
I have mixed feelings about the decision to have that guy on Hearts and Minds. On the one hand it gives him a further feeling of legitimacy, but on the other, at least it exposes him and his ilk as the completely laughable buffoons that they are. He had literally nothing to say for himself. He seemed to be regurgitating a load of bite-size meaningless phraseology aimed at cloaking his true message – give us money or we’ll keep drug dealing, pimping and killing people.
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Comment on Is the Rangers crisis undermining the false economy of Scottish football?
on 24 February 2012 at 10:22 am
Traditional companies with one major shareholder just aren’t the right vehicles for football clubs. The emotions of hundreds of thousands of fans are tossed around at the whim of a chairman who is primarily looking out for himself (as any business man is expected to do of course).
Football clubs as a whole are a victim of their own attractiveness to the egotistical billionaire. It is now mainly just those clubs whose owners can afford to pay silly wages and risk huge losses who can compete at the top level. For those lesser-value owners that try, and fail, hell hath no fury like a football fan scorned…
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Comment on The problem with uncorroborated evidence (and supergrass trials)
on 23 February 2012 at 2:49 pm
ArdEoin Republican – it seems to me that you are using this thread to make a very general complaint about Diplock courts without any support from the subject-matter of the thread. The fact is a jury would have been more likely to convict in this case. And, as it happens, in the Colin Duffy case, though I don’t recall you making any such complaint then. So it seems your view of Diplock courts depends entirely on whether your side got off or one of themuns got off. Pathetic.
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Comment on Dead tree columnist prejudices public’s perception of bloggers?
on 9 February 2012 at 11:34 am
I know several “traditional” journalists that had no journalistic training whatsover, other than that which they picked up on the job. Just like a blogger.
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Comment on “This is a read-back into the so-called ‘dirty war’…”
on 2 February 2012 at 12:18 pm
Would the dissidents stop killing people if the PSNI and MI5 stopped their intelligence work? No.
Would the PSNI and MI5 stop their intelligence work if the dissident stopped trying to kill people? Yes.
- Debate ends -
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Comment on Sandy Row drug dealers are warned
on 2 February 2012 at 12:02 pm
Carl, you’ve been completely caught out taking a unfounded swipe at all unionist posters on here and you should have the good grace to stop flailing. More than just Turgon and Drumlins Rock condemned that attack so you are still wrong. But that is not the point. In your world, every time a sectarian attack is reported the ‘other side’ should log on to tick the condemnation box. Don’t be ridiculous. Such attacks are not carried out in the name of any unionist posters and there should be no presumption that they condone it. Sectarian attacks are carried out by mindless thugs no matter which ‘side’ they are from. The true ‘sides’ in these matters are the thugs of whatever persuasion on one side and the rest of us (of whatever persuasion) on the other.
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Comment on “Last January, the vast majority of families decided that the 39th Anniversary would be the last march”
on 1 February 2012 at 11:23 am
On the main topic, people should just be allowed to march if they want to march. It doesn’t need collective ‘endorsement’ and equally people should not be seen as abandoning a cause if they decide not to do it anymore. Nothing to see here, in other words.
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Comment on “Last January, the vast majority of families decided that the 39th Anniversary would be the last march”
on 1 February 2012 at 11:18 am
I read that article too and it was the biggest load of nonsense ever committed to type. He completely fails to acknowledge that the reason NI is still British is that Ireland and Britain alike have decided that it should be until the majority of NI decide otherwise. The rest of it pretty much amounts to damning the British Government if they do and damning them if they don’t. It’s a childish article and appears to be written for a simplistic American audience.
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Comment on ‘Derry is a better place’
on 30 January 2012 at 2:14 pm
As am I, Raven. We went on a school trip with a Derry school and I recall being fascinated by the level of involvement they all seemed to have had. We might as well have been talking to people from the Balkans, such was the apparent difference in our experiences. Where I grew up, the terrorists were the bogeymen that you never saw and only heard about on the telly. But telly was a different place.
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