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A flexible library service for the 21st century?
Tweet Following Alan’s piece on libraries, I picked this ‘advertorial’ from Google plus this evening… about how a US county library system is cutting costs and improving flexibility in their free at the point of delivery services by enabling the whole library service act as a functioning unit as opposed to the one discrete library… read our review » -
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Tweet Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning [...] read our review » -
Douglas Murray – Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry, Book Review
Tweet The aftermath of the Saville Inquiry into the events around Bloody Sunday has left me, and I suspect many others, with one enduring image: Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology in the House of Commons, where he says that the actions of the British Army were ‘unjustified and unjustifiable.’ But there’s a lot more to [...] read our review »
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Comment on 55 Hours Part One: Sunday 5 July 1981
on 14 May 2013 at 1:11 pm
“Does silence indicate consent to the daming points made?”
No it’s just more of the same long-winded argument via attrition that Rusty Nail excels at. She lost the argument and her credibility in the matter a long time ago and frankly only the anti-republican zealots as witnessed above have anything invested in encouraging her to continue – the rest of us don’t really care or could be bothered responding. Now if she was to give us the inside information into Priory Hall, that would be worth a read.
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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 10:27 pm
Yahhoooo… 45 responses to a Slugger blog, haven’t seen that in a while. Can always rely on Gerry byes.
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Comment on Seven years after their last raid, Police came back to Slab Murphy’s farm…
on 19 March 2013 at 12:14 pm
“Fires were suddenly lit at a number of locations at around the same time, at 2am, and they were still smouldering when the raid took place.
Laptops, computer disks and a large amount of documentation had been destroyed in the fires. They seemed to know that a raid was imminent. They now have to explain why this took place.”
If I was of a mind to destroy some computer disks, throwing them on a fire would be the last thing I’d try. I’d guess with the supposed resources this Murphy character has at his disposal he’d have a more effective method. Moral of the story, don’t believe everything you read in the newspaper or when it comes to the Indo/Sindo (or syndicated), don’t believe anything you read.
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Comment on All but three islanders vote to keep the Falklands British…
on 12 March 2013 at 12:04 pm
Seems the Brits will have a referendum at the drop of a hat when they’re certain of the result.
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Comment on A manifesto for enlightened Catholicism
on 11 March 2013 at 1:17 pm
“Who would Kung pick among the Paddy Power runners and riders?”
My guess would be a “modernist” like Schonborn, arguably a heretic, who has no problem throwing the priests of his diocese to the wolves for uploading basic Catholic dogma. Of course in Austria they’ve also got priests rejecting Transubstantiation and while including animals in the liturgy, so thankfully he has no chance.
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Comment on Catholic Church is struggling with serial exposure of its private values more than homosexuality
on 5 March 2013 at 7:16 pm
Such nonsense, the Pope issued no such edict and threatened the Cardinals with no such thing. What he did do was widen the circle of people that would be bound to secrecy. Given the Vatileaks scandal and that the Cardinals are to be housed in new accomodation with more people involved in Conclave, it’s all fairly understandable.
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/apostolic-letter-given-motu-proprio.html
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Comment on Gerry Adams ‘self hacking’ his way through the Irish Twittersphere?
on 23 February 2013 at 12:50 am
Gerry is genuinely a witty self-effacing lad and will come across well on Twitter. What surprises me is that no one has picked on the arrogant corner-boy tweets that seem to be coming from the deputy FM. If someone else isn’t handling Twitter on behalf of McGuinness I’d be very disappointed, but if it is him he’d need to quit, immediately.
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Comment on Aftermath of a riot as it used to be done in Belfast…
on 22 February 2013 at 10:29 am
“No commentary, just raw footage.”
Well it’s not quite “raw footage”, but heck if you want to hear the accompanying commentary of the “raw footage”, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v2jINsekj4
What’s brought on this trip down memory lane Mick, surely not a new found gra for republican agitprop?
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Comment on Time for Unionism to find a place for the Irish National flag in Northern Ireland
on 19 February 2013 at 10:16 am
Going by the responses of our unionist contributors that looks like a big fat no, they’re not for any accommodation with the Irish National Flag i.e. the Irish Tricolour. Sorry lads but in the immortal words of Sam Cooke, “a change Is gonna come”, whether you like it or not so it would be to you advantage to find an accommodation on your terms.
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Comment on “President Vladimir Putin said he thanked God no big fragments had fallen in populated areas.”
on 15 February 2013 at 9:39 pm
Putin believes in God? I find it hard to believe the KGB missed that.
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Comment on First Minister issues warning over alleged political connection to punishment shooting…
on 14 February 2013 at 10:40 am
Is it only republicans who have their names released to the press before being charged?
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Comment on In the UK housing market it’s back to the 1970s
on 3 February 2013 at 12:37 am
Okay… right so how does all this compare against Dublin/Leinster, Munster & Connaught? The obvious thing to do would be to compare like against like, that is regions on the same feckin island.
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Comment on If Adams is a prisoner of his own past, can he provide a future for Sinn Fein?
on 1 February 2013 at 4:42 pm
Zzzzzzzzz
Might save us all bit a bit of time if you could copy and paste the replies over from the other threads as well.
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Comment on Adams apology worse than no apology at all…
on 30 January 2013 at 7:53 pm
“Many ex IRA members have been open and honest about their membership. Martin McGuinness, Gerry Kelly, Conor Murphy, Martina Anderson to name but a few so why doesn’t Gerry Adams?”
McGuinness was given immunity by the Bloody Sunday Tribunal for admitting to membership during a two year period. He says he left in 1976.
Kelly, Murphy & Anderson all served time and cannot be tried twice for the same thing.
If they were IRA members outside these periods they would all be under orders by that organisation to tell no one of their membership (this information in the Green Book, freely available to read in the Internet).
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Comment on Adams apology worse than no apology at all…
on 30 January 2013 at 6:04 pm
@Joe
“I imagine that parliamentary privilege applies in the Dail and that anything said there could not be used in a court of law.”
Two jurisdictions Joe, there wouldn’t be any parliamentary privilege in the north.
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Comment on Adams apology worse than no apology at all…
on 30 January 2013 at 5:22 pm
Mick we’re all well used to excoriating pieces from the Herald, they come at least twice a week but like their stalemates in the Sindo/Indo the effectiveness is blunted somewhat by the saturation, propaganda and lies.
Anyhow back to Gerry Ahh, let’s not pretend for a second that as soon as Gerry admitted membership he wouldn’t be up on changes in the same manner as Padraic Wilson last November:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20202455
I know it, you know, Miriam Lord knows it, the Evening Herald knows it, but ignoring that particular elephant allows his detractors maintain this particular line of attack. Thankfully most of the public are wise to it as well.
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Comment on Is Heaney right when he talks about us having ‘caste politics’?
on 30 January 2013 at 11:05 am
“Is Heaney right when he talks about us having ‘caste politics’?”
Níl fhios agam, but he’s dead on the money when he says “Loyalism, or unionism, or Protestantism or whatever you want to call it” is based on “a caste system”. i.e. don’t be including we native Indians in your definition of “us” as it obviously wasn’t intended to be by Heaney.
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Comment on Why a #BorderPoll ill-serves the cause of a united island
on 24 January 2013 at 12:34 pm
Mick republicans have been doing that for years and receive only sneering responses. Unionism isn’t listening and why would they, it’s in their interests that no one engages with republicans.
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Comment on Why a #BorderPoll ill-serves the cause of a united island
on 24 January 2013 at 12:09 pm
“a Border Poll in and of itself will not bring about a united island”
Maybe, but as we until we get a United Ireland unionists will have no interest in a “united island”. One only has to look at the petulance of Forster last night to see how far you get trying to have a serious debate with unionism.
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Comment on Border Poll: “We may just call your bluff on this one Mitchel…”
on 23 January 2013 at 10:11 am
“How ironic. Sinn Féin are stuck because the Irish government doesn’t want to explore further the possibility of reunification.”
Stuck? They’re only 4 days into the campaign and the media has been giving it saturation coverage.
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