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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 “MI5 may go along with the lie for political expediency..”
on 1 September 2008 at 5:46 pm
Sorry but I find this report hard to believe
It stinks of a report saying the right things at the right time. all very suspect in my eyes, and many others I would say
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Comment on The Slugger Awards 2008: Best MLA
on 28 August 2008 at 8:34 pm
while I normally look with sadness to stormont I still feel I am able to put that to the side for a minute to nominate the UUP’s Basil McCrea. He is a breath of fresh air within politics, have always found him to be very honest and tolerant.
As I say, breath of fresh air.
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Comment on “This Is the New PSNI – Just the Same as the RUC”
on 28 August 2008 at 6:00 pm
maybe the sniper “elected” him?
…”You do the talking for a while, I do the shooting this time”
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Comment on “This Is the New PSNI – Just the Same as the RUC”
on 28 August 2008 at 5:04 pm
excellent post neil.
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Comment on “This Is the New PSNI – Just the Same as the RUC”
on 28 August 2008 at 3:10 pm
Dear God what is this all about
Police need to raid some areas if they get intellegance. It is what keeps us safe. Loyalist and Republican areas are both targeted.
Maybe it was a good idea to raid the area considering someone obviously had access to a sniper rifle!!
Republicans need to decide. do they want to support the police or not?
If not do you prefer supporting a man shooting 7 shots down a street full of people?
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Comment on “but they have nobody to blame but themselves..”
on 27 August 2008 at 8:22 pm
West belfast,
you are quite correct of course
but I would suggest you should be aiming your “settle down” comments at the SF/IRA leadership.
They are getting all excited about the policing and justice issue and making threats left right and centre because they know they misled their electorate and members by promising something they knew wasnt agreed to.
They and the SF/IRA support need to realise that policing and justice will not be being transfered anytime soon. Indeed with their latest outbursts I would say it will be even longer now before they get their grubby, blood stained hands on the powers of policing and justice
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Comment on “but they have nobody to blame but themselves..”
on 27 August 2008 at 8:00 pm
ohhhhhh
your being very controversial here Richard
dont let marty hear you!
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Comment on “but they have nobody to blame but themselves..”
on 27 August 2008 at 7:52 pm
I think the orange phone reception is getting better though so why not celebrate it?
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Comment on “but they have nobody to blame but themselves..”
on 27 August 2008 at 7:52 pm
I think the orange phone reciption is getting better though so why not celebrate it?
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Comment on “but they have nobody to blame but themselves..”
on 27 August 2008 at 6:07 pm
Pete,
SF/IRA have gotten themselves in an almighty mess regarding this issue. Your quite right, they knew the had no real agreement on policing and justice dates with the DUP. They knew this but now are threatening to bring down the executive over the issue and their impatience. They made promises to their electorate that they knew they couldnt keep unless there was a massive (enormous infact) weakness shown from the DUP.
I far from agree with alot of the DUP regarding many things this last while, but even the DUP are not stupid enough to sign their own death warrants and agree to SF/IRA demands regarding a thing as vital as policing and justice
I am actually rather sure now that the executive will fall as I dont see any way out of this current stalemate.
One of the two main parties would need to fail massively and take an enormous hit if they backed down to the other.
election time is looming
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