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Help me with the West Wing: Essential viewing or Party Political Broadcast?
Tweet 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 [...] read our review »
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Ian O’Riordan’s Miles to Run: An invitation to madness?
Tweet Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have [...] read our review »
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Book Review: The McGurk’s Bar Bombing
Tweet The McGurk’s Bar Bombing: Collusion, Cover-Up and a Campaign for Truth with a foreword by Colin Wallace, just published by Frontline Noir, is the first book by Ciarán MacAirt, grandson of one of those killed in the bombing and the most visible campaigner on behalf of the victims and their families. The book pulls together the [...] read our review »
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Comment on Sinn Féin: Hyde Park bomb charges “vindictive, unnecessary and unhelpful”
on 22 May 2013 at 11:25 pm
Keano10
“There is considerable potential for destabilisation in such cases” Please elaborate .
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Comment on Sinn Féin: Hyde Park bomb charges “vindictive, unnecessary and unhelpful”
on 22 May 2013 at 9:40 pm
Time for a “spontaneous ” protest by outraged Sinn Fein members in London!Except that ,given the events today,this might not be the best of times to remind Londoners of previous terrorist happenings.It will be interesting to see if light emerges at the trial on any side deals between the British Government and Sinn Fein.
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Comment on The PUL Community and the Peace Process: An Audit
on 21 May 2013 at 9:30 am
Alan
You mention that there were strong views on the Social Investment Fund.I haven’t had time to listen to any of the Audio-Boos but what in essence were those “strong views”?
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Comment on 55 Hours Part Four: Wednesday 8 July 1981
on 20 May 2013 at 1:22 pm
Terry B
“Adams and Morrison should hang their heads in shame”. Don’t hold your breath waiting on that! Sadly they and their cohorts know they can get away with almost anything so why should they break the habits of a lifetime .
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Comment on Gerry Adams (and Sammy Wilson) putting on a Poor Mouth over £4 Billion of ‘elusive’ cuts?
on 17 May 2013 at 8:55 am
Wonder if Gerry knows what happened to the £26 million from the Northern Bank heist?Must have disappeared into thin air!!
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Comment on 55 Hours Part Two: Monday 6 July 1981
on 15 May 2013 at 6:08 pm
If memory serves me right,I seem to recall that Sinn Fein in Tyrone complained to the Diocesan authorities about the appointment of Monsignor Faul to the Carrickmore parish.Obviously old resentments die hard.Yet the local Assemblyman was quite visible in the usual S F way at Msgnr Faul’s funeral.Another case of a decent man acting for the greater good and receiving Republican vilification .
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Comment on Beware politicians shutting down their own public accountability mechanisms
on 15 May 2013 at 5:33 pm
“Parties losing the capacity to act powerful in the broader public interest and for that public good”. When was the last time a political party did that? Ah yes— John Hume and the S D L P.Did the public reward them.I don’t think so! There seems little incentive in the current Stormont set-up to act in the common good.Suppose it depends on your interpretation of the “common good”.
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Comment on 55 Hours Part One: Sunday 5 July 1981
on 14 May 2013 at 12:53 pm
There has been a strange dearth of responses from the usual sources to this blog from Riusty Nail(apart from the ever faithful Mr Mc Ivor!).One might have thought that such an assault on the credibility of Mr Adams&Co would lead to a flood of rebuttals.Does silence indicate consent to the daming points made?
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Comment on It’s Derry again – with London and Liverpool, commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic
on 12 May 2013 at 10:15 pm
Well said,Malcolm Redfellow.Your last sentence above sums up very adequately.Mr Flashman seems rather coy when asked to substantiate his claims!
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Comment on Death of CSI: If we can’t have a strategy what about asking better questions?
on 10 May 2013 at 4:30 pm
Yes,the main thing that stood out on The View last night was the combined arrogance of Bell and O’Dowd.And these are the two political parties who will effectively be dispensing the largesse from the Social Inclusion Fund(aka-the Slush Fund).Three guesses where grants from that source will be going!
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Comment on It’s Derry again – with London and Liverpool, commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic
on 10 May 2013 at 9:40 am
Harry
I doubt if Tiochais Saorai’s post above adds anything to your continuing obsession with Derry City Council.You have yet to define the identity of “certain elements in the Council majority”.
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Comment on It’s Derry again – with London and Liverpool, commemorating the Battle of the Atlantic
on 9 May 2013 at 6:53 pm
Harry
In your post at 11 05am,you refer to “certain elements in the Council majority”.To whom are you referring?
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Comment on UTV Insight: Collusion and some of its innocent victims…
on 8 May 2013 at 9:34 pm
Ruarai
Since you are apparently near the centre of things in Washington D C,do you sense that there is any great appetite amongst the politicians there for an international inquiry into the past in Northern Ireland .Do you seriously think that Dublin and London are going to set up such a body and pick up the tab in the present economic climate?
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 2 May 2013 at 10:34 pm
There are few certainties in life,but a constant is the uncritical support of Jude for Gerry and Martin.He seems to feel that the mainstream media are biased against his two heroes and he has to rectify the imbalance .
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Comment on Adams’s extended RTE interview on political murder turns the southern clock right back for Sinn Fein…
on 30 April 2013 at 11:37 pm
Ulick
You marvel at 45 responses to a Slugger blog. This is not an uncommon figure in many recent blogs and would indeed be classed as low in any response to a Chris Donnelly blog!I have no doubt that the O’Callaghan/Adams interview will provoke a multitude of further responses in this and other blog sites !
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Comment on “a leadership which has lost on prisons has nowhere to go…”
on 28 April 2013 at 2:18 pm
Whatever way you look at it,it doesn’t say much for Mr Adams credibility .But sadly most commentators prefer to look the other way and believe the likes of Danny Morrison.
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Comment on Northern Irish politicians now commercially indemnified against libelling members of the public…
on 18 April 2013 at 10:45 pm
Ironic or not?Mr Givan on U T V again tonight.Bet Paul Clark is watching his P’s and Q’s at the moment.Doesn’t look as if D U P are going to demote Mr Givan.
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Comment on Northern Irish politicians now commercially indemnified against libelling members of the public…
on 18 April 2013 at 4:50 pm
Pete
Doubt if there will be any searching questions on this matter on U T V Live!
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Comment on Northern Irish politicians now commercially indemnified against libelling members of the public…
on 18 April 2013 at 3:23 pm
In any normal democracy,surely Mr Givan should be considering his position as Chair of the Justice Committee.But given the recent “bonding”session between Peter and Martin,we should not be holding our breath waiting on this to happen.Sadly the two major parties know they can get away with almost everything .It will be interesting to hear what the one man opposition in the Assembly (Jim Allister Q C) has to say on the matter.Maybe I’ve missed it ,but I fail to see any reference to the case on the U T V website.
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Comment on Gerry Adams says loyalists have much in common with republican neighbours and calls for dialogue
on 13 April 2013 at 11:40 pm
From the excerpts above it appears that John Hume had no role to play in the Peace Process!It seems that generosity of spirit does not extend to the S D L P.
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