Towards a United Community

See that #fleg in Enniskillen? Well, now you don’t…

Mick Fealty on June 7, 2013, 11:59 am

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Now relax… The St George’s flag still flies over Enniskillen Castle as a reference to two former British regiments raised in the town’s defence in 1689. Can’t say I’d ever noticed before, but apparently there’s a row brewing over it’s removal from a leaflet for the G8 Summit… Here’s the council’s reasoning… “The design team gave long and detailed consideration to the content and design of the leaflet. In relation to any decision around the inclusion of flags, the design …

OFMdFM panic move was “like a funding application where the Secretary of State had cracked the whip”

Mick Fealty on May 16, 2013, 1:52 pm

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Well, here’s a bit of a YouTube Smorgasbord of comment on OFMdFM’s Towards a United Community… It’s telling that the joint tactics of the representatives of the OFMdFM parties used a lot of shouting, jeering and intervention to smother what was in aggregate a decent three pointed challenge from Alliance, the UUP and the SDLP… First word to the two boys, starting with the history of this document going right back to Des Brown’s launch of the Shared Future consultation …