May, 2011

Is Gregory Campbell really ‘a dinosaur’?

Gregory Campbell was on the Nolan Show this morning on BBC Radio Ulster (yes I know it has a huge listenership in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan). Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly was also on the show and he  called Gregory a dinosaur. That’s because Gregory was giving out about the appointment of Sinn Féin’s Mary McArdle […]

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Is Gregory Campbell really ‘a dinosaur’?

Gregory Campbell was on the Nolan Show this morning on BBC Radio Ulster (yes I know it has a huge listenership in Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan). Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly was also on the show and he  called Gregory a dinosaur. That’s because Gregory was giving out about the appointment of Sinn Féin’s Mary McArdle […]

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Our political opponents: they’re so damn CONFUSING…

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is a difference between people and their politics. I don’t mean by that the obvious, that politics divides people. It can and it does. If I believe in capitalism and you believe in socialism, if I value union with Britain and you yearn for Irish ‘independence’ (I […]

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Our political opponents: they’re so damn CONFUSING…

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is a difference between people and their politics. I don’t mean by that the obvious, that politics divides people. It can and it does. If I believe in capitalism and you believe in socialism, if I value union with Britain and you yearn for Irish ‘independence’ (I […]

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Still cringeing after all these years?

“So what Irish football club do you support?”  The questioner was the guide at Camp Nou, home of FC Barcelona, last summer. Questions like that make you think. Or they do me. What Irish football club (soccer, that is) do I support? Um, none. I support Arsenal, I told the Camp Nou man, and I […]

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Still cringeing after all these years?

“So what Irish football club do you support?”  The questioner was the guide at Camp Nou, home of FC Barcelona, last summer. Questions like that make you think. Or they do me. What Irish football club (soccer, that is) do I support? Um, none. I support Arsenal, I told the Camp Nou man, and I […]

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Knuckle-draggers and the new Lord Mayor

How will the anti-Irish knuckle-draggers cope now that Niall Ó Donnghaile has been installed as Belfast’s new Lord Mayor, I wonder? Given that a single word of Irish can be seen as a subversive signal (see the brilliant blog http://ansionnachfionn.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/irish-ireland-meets-english-ireland-in-the-eurospar/ for a southern version of the same problem), every time they use Ó Donnghaile’s name […]

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Knuckle-draggers and the new Lord Mayor

How will the anti-Irish knuckle-draggers cope now that Niall Ó Donnghaile has been installed as Belfast’s new Lord Mayor, I wonder? Given that a single word of Irish can be seen as a subversive signal (see the brilliant blog http://ansionnachfionn.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/irish-ireland-meets-english-ireland-in-the-eurospar/ for a southern version of the same problem), every time they use Ó Donnghaile’s name […]

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Our grate skool system

Well, looks like it’s started again – if it ever stopped, that is. I mean the education debate. The new Education Minister, John O’Dowd, was on the BBC’s ‘Hearts and Minds’ last night and two things immediately became clear: Sinn Féin have no plans to row back on the abolition of the 11+ that began […]

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Our grate skool system

Well, looks like it’s started again – if it ever stopped, that is. I mean the education debate. The new Education Minister, John O’Dowd, was on the BBC’s ‘Hearts and Minds’ last night and two things immediately became clear: Sinn Féin have no plans to row back on the abolition of the 11+ that began […]

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