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A poem for the day – Launching the Whaler Juan Peron
A Belfast epic, and one of my oldest poems, the opener of my first collection, Grub. The gist of the story was found in Moss & Hume’s Shipbuilders to the World: 125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, 1861-1986, which tells how Eva Peron was due to launch a huge whaling vessel in Belfast, built [...] read our review » -
Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] read our review »
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review »
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Comment on Football eligibility row illustrates unionism’s inability to respect ‘The Other’ tradition
on 10 February 2012 at 12:48 am
Is slugger merely a vehicle for SF press releases on this subject?
‘independent’ media.
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Comment on Credit crunch, FDI and the late arrival of variable Corporation tax rates…
on 26 November 2011 at 1:25 pm
The Republic’s tax haven status for multinationals will end Friday week.
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Comment on Euro crisis: “it is time to send for the Borg…”
on 18 November 2011 at 1:25 pm
As shrewd an analysis as any I’ve read yet.
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Comment on “The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland consider a Bill of Rights to be important”
on 18 November 2011 at 1:19 pm
simply not worth the paper it’s written on.
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Comment on Tears in the Rain comes to Golden Thread Gallery
on 20 October 2011 at 5:14 pm
Why did Miller leave his political appointment to NI Water?
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Comment on Gaddafi dead
on 20 October 2011 at 5:03 pm
^^ the provo support for terror worldwide, oblivious to what everyone else thinks.
Well done Libya.
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Comment on NI Universities show strong religious imbalance in student numbers
on 19 October 2011 at 1:02 pm
On a point of statistical relevance re latest Bellylaugh article. Using future religious makeup (ie not just 6th form but all the way down to nursery school) to nullify concerns about current imbalances in university *right now* is a complete fallacy.
In reality if the current imbalance is allowed to continue then all the nursery school+ figures will confirm is that we should expect the ratio to get worse over the next decade or so.
But I guess it hadn’t occurred to the writer of that piece with it’s preordained slant that the stats they use are irrelevant to the question Jim Allister posed.
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Comment on NI Universities show strong religious imbalance in student numbers
on 18 October 2011 at 4:49 pm
“This is hardly breaking news.
We know the Catholic maintained sector far outstrips the state – read protestant – sector in terms of education.”
Perhaps what is newsworthy is why nothing has been done in this particularly field of equality, given the history of equality conscious ministers for education we’ve had through the gates of Stormont and all…
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Comment on Thoughts on the Liberal Dissidents
on 17 October 2011 at 11:32 pm
Woman’s Coalition as Liberal Dissidents? Not a chance – sure they inheirited their insidious little quango empire themselves after the GFA.
I’d also disagree with Turgon’s comment on Liberal Dissidents having previously been part of quangos here, since Liberal Dissidents were surely as much disinterested in the status quo prior to devolution as the circular stalemate encouraged thereafter.
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Comment on More confusion from IFA quarters over football eligibility on the day Nigel walks
on 17 October 2011 at 11:48 am
“it’s just that Donnelly is more diligent/obsessed on the subject.”
I don’t see anyone else actively engaged in the subject on behalf of a political party though. Slugger is many things, but in the absence of alternate thought effectively a conduit for party political diatribes?
“St Etienne it would be a bit of a dull website if we all agreed with the articles”
On any given subject we don’t have to agree with the articles all the time but when I find myself agreeing with none of the articles then there is certainly a lack of healthy alternative voice. Sure there is the comments, but they can’t change the headline – which in this case was an extremely weak ‘news’piece. But hey at least it shows Gerry’s pushing the right buttons. Wonder how much of this crap is being sent his way privately?
“John Delaney may come across as a bit of a weasel but the IFA boys are worse”
Delaney comes across as a weasel because he is one. The IFA boys – historic ineptitude sure – but sliminess on the scale of Delaney’s reptilian scales? No chance. Prior to the CAS advisory he actually came out & said he was defending young nationalists political aspirations – as if this is something a member of FIFA should be concerning itself with!
And that’s before you even get to the Team 33 shenanigans not so long ago. No begging bowl from the Armenians this time round of course.
“I have alraedy made the point that the youngsters declaring for the Republic is a rather small problem (for the moment but will be massive if the IFA sit on their arses) compared to the big problem of Northern Irish players not turning up regularly for their country”
4 years ago it was the Republic who couldn’t get their players turning out for them. Sanchez on the other hand engineered a team seemingly unbreakable in it’s determination to do what hadn’t been done before. Swings & roundabouts. However as you allude to, the continuing issue of player defections encouraged by the FAI is a far greater strategic issue.
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