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What does this say about us all?

JR on December 2, 2011, 2:03 pm | Readers 20

I was on the way home yesterday evening at around 6. While driving along through Camlough I saw an old lady on the side of the Road, just at the mini roundabout with her thumb out. It seemed very odd for a pitch black December night and the thermometer on the car was reading 1.5 so I pulled over. To my utter shock the woman was so cold she couldn’t open the car door and was talking like she had …

Will any other NI party leaders stand down before 2015?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 16, 2011, 9:15 am | Readers 6

Later on today, we’ll have a clearer picture about the candidates that will be seeking to become SDLP leader and deputy leader. The SDLP will be hoping that its membership will democratically elect someone who can steer the party away from decline (or what Seamus Mallon described as “the low rung on the ladder” on last night’s Hearts and Minds) and back towards sustainable growth. The party will be longing for a stable leadership in the run up to the …