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Books
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Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
Tweet This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to [...] read our review »
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Books: Listening to Van Morrison…
Tweet Great little review of Listening to Van Morrison by Griel Marcus… It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that [...] read our review »
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The Written World
Tweet Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in [...] read our review »
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Comment on Theresa Villiers: “I’m extremely pleased that we were able to answer the Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill’s request for a military helicopter…”
on 28 March 2013 at 9:26 am
3 Irish AirCorps Helicopters will be in the skies above South Down today helping farmers. Incredibly petty to use the terrible plight of farmers to score childish political points.
Well done to all in securing the use of helicopters, irrespective of the badge on the side
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Comment on #Flegs: They haven’t gone away you know…
on 18 February 2013 at 6:10 pm
PSNI explanation of events outside Seaview on Saturday:
He said a 40 minute protest outside Seaview effectively prevented Cliftonville fans from entering the grounds safely.
“The protestors were engaged with by local people, by people from the football clubs, they were asked to move back to facilitate. Those protestors refused to do that,” he explained.
Police moved forward after three formal warnings were given to protestors
“That soft line was met with violent resistance. It was met with people pushing back and an exchange of missiles with the police,” said Chief Supt Clarke.
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Comment on #Flegs: They haven’t gone away you know…
on 18 February 2013 at 2:23 pm
‘local residents were angry enough to take to the streets’
Seems that most of 50 taking part were not from the area, so hardly residents!
Willie Frazer & east Belfast ‘community worker’ Jim Wilson must have just happened to be passing when the protest took place!!
UPC
Looks like a flag protest, smells like a flag protest, probably was a flag protest
http://presseye.com/media/gQi6OXIqVcjLv2IL_ZkpGA..a?ts=u_lyScn8z4t-R7E0W83yXg..a
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Comment on “after some people made it clear they were not prepared to make witness statements to investigating officers”
on 15 February 2013 at 9:53 am
She said she believed her son was shot by dissident republicans and that he had received two death threats over anti-social behaviour’
She also revealed that her son was “beat with hammers a lot of weeks ago” and had served a 33-month jail term for rioting linked to July 12 demonstrations.
“The 33-months was for the rioting which these people called him to do and then they have a cheek and go and lift a gun and shoot him,” she said.
http://www.irishnews.com/news/-dissident-rats-who-shot-my-son-should-be-put-down-1231067
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Comment on “a 65% to 17% majority for Northern Ireland remaining in the UK suggests little room for doubt.”
on 6 February 2013 at 2:25 am
Interesting that of the 38% Catholics who want to stay within the UK, less than 1% would vote for the DUP & 0% would vote Ulster Unionist.
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Comment on David Ford: Ideological differences not being handled inside the SDLP…
on 29 January 2013 at 12:41 am
Looks like this is the earth shattering,seismic, historic Alliance statement via the Newsletter.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/headlines/alliance-call-for-state-regulation-on-flags-1-4729184
Think the Newsletter got a bit excited earlier with the tweets lol!
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Comment on David Ford: Ideological differences not being handled inside the SDLP…
on 29 January 2013 at 12:33 am
It appears you are correct, no statement out there, apologies if I misled
Saw some Newsletter journalist tweet this much earlier today. Obviously not a very good investigative journalist!
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Comment on What do Catholic people living in non interface Belfast think of the flags crisis?
on 21 January 2013 at 10:40 am
This video shows return journey with loyalist protesters made to return via Middlepath Street rather than past homes at lower Bridge End.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGiqOGhbPEU
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Comment on What do Catholic people living in non interface Belfast think of the flags crisis?
on 21 January 2013 at 10:37 am
The police operation to bring loyalists back via Middlepath Street on Saturday worked as it should have worked last week, before loyalists broke away & ‘tooled up’.
‘Community workers’ cough!!! on the Newtownards Road also prevented missiles being thrown.
Funny how the tap get’s turned on & off!!
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Comment on Why does it flare up at Short Strand every time?
on 16 January 2013 at 12:08 pm
Not sure how you would equate 40 petrol bombs with a golf ball, but obviously all throwing is wrong.
I think it’s fairly clear that the recent comments regarding the leadership of the UVF being heavily involved in the drugs trade, led to the latest muscle flexing by the UVF in east Belfast, same as last year & previous years. And strange that so many north Belfast UVF faces were at short strand during the trouble lat saturday.
Looks to me that the PUP are trying take back control of the protests from Willie Frazer & it would appear that Mr Frazer has been warned to stay out of east Belfast.
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