Gerry Lynch

Interview with Occupy Belfast and situation on Royal Avenue

Gerry Lynch on January 16, 2012, 8:25 pm | Readers 268

In my recent piece on politics and the internet here, I noted that Occupy Belfast had not done much during its short existence other than occupy Belfast's officially sanctioned haunt of leftists, Writers' Square. Alan in Belfast also had a Slugger piece up over the weekend noting that Occupy were not exactly catching the imagination of the man on the Antrim Road omnibus. Occupy activists must have enjoyed reading those pieces, knowing they were about to occupy one of Belfast's …

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, It Will Be On The Internet

Gerry Lynch on January 13, 2012, 10:04 am | Readers 55

I walk past the Occupy Belfast protesters opposite St. Anne’s Cathedral nearly every day. It would be easy to sneer at them. They have some rather nice tents out of Decathlon, that well known bastion of anti-capitalism, and they seem to have a lot of fun. Not only are they not occupying anything more than Belfast’s new-but-now-traditional venue of left-wing protest, but they aren’t even properly persecuted. I can’t remember the last time I saw a cop there, let alone …

Only a fool would call the Scottish independence referendum at this distance

Gerry Lynch on January 10, 2012, 8:02 am | Readers 125

“Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled – Scots, wham Bruce has aften led – Welcome to your gory bed. Or to victorie!” Punditry is not an art that suits the modest. Anyone asking people to take time and trouble to read their writing, let alone expecting them to pay for the privilege, is usually best advised to claim some sort of special knowledge or insight that repays the time invested in reading their thoughts. In that context, I suppose I …