What the council votes say about the next Assembly and Westminster elections: Strangford, U Bann, W Tyrone plus NI Summary…
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This is the last set of constituencies in this series. It coincides with the publication of the Final Report of the NI Boundary Commission. As expected there has only been minor change since the Commissions previous proposals. Some 1,000 electors …
What politician in their right mind would want to go into an executive to administer such terrible cuts?
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It seems every day, we get news of yet more cuts. We have schools with food banks, plans to turn off streetlights, and the health service has waiting lists so long that many people will not live to get the …
“I survived the f*cking Troubles and I survived all the sh*te that was going with it…”
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I’m often wary of material that deals directly with our conflicted past, whether in books, films or as a series like the BBC’s latest chronicle of the Troubles, Once Upon A Time in Northern Ireland. Often there’s some too clever …
Dáil Elections 2024 – Predicting the Northern Six Counties…
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David Nesbitt is a husband, father and Presbyterian in the fine tradition of McCracken and Neilson. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Queens and likes to nerd out on election coverage. Following last year’s shocking decision to call …
‘It’s about life and death’: Frampton vs Kielty
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As the finale event of the Docs Ireland film festival, boxing legend Carl Frampton and comedian/presenter Patrick Kielty had a one-to-one conversation with an audience of over a hundred at the Cineworld complex, interspersed with clips from their documentary films …
7 years after ‘that’ vote…
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MY social media memories today from 7 years ago are of the results of the Brexit referendum vote, 23 June 2016. The seven-year anniversary of the ‘leave’ campaign’s victory was yesterday. The vote that David Cameron said would reveal “the …
What the council votes say about the next Assembly and Westminster elections: N Down, S Antrim, S Down…
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For a full explanation of the various charts used in this piece please see the introduction in the first article in this series. What the council votes say about the next Assembly and Westminster elections: East, North and West Belfast… …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.
Wagner chief accused of mutiny in Russia…
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It all seems to be kicking off in Russia. From the BBC: The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has vowed to “go all the way” to topple Russia’s military leadership, hours after the Kremlin accused him of “armed rebellion”. …