Strangely cyclical nature of NI politics?

Great, Glenn Patterson is one of the first Northern Irish bloggers at the new Guardian blog site, Comment is Free (you can click the new advert on side). He suggests that with the proposed abolition of the NIHE, it looks like we travelled a long way to get back to the beginning. Even if that’s not the case. Check out our review of Glenn’s piece in the latest edition of Irish Pages. I can still recall the smell of sixties Porter in his novel The International


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