Neil Lennon, Glasgow Celtic manager Note: this post was put up two days ago and deleted at some point over the past twenty-four hours. Who by? Pass. Neil Lennon says he’s been targeted by the hate-mongers in Scotland and in the North here because he’s a Catholic. He’s wrong. Well no, that’s a bit […]
May, 2011
Neil Lennon: he’s not hated just because he’s a Catholic
Neil Lennon, Glasgow Celtic manager Note: this post was put up two days ago and deleted at some point over the past twenty-four hours. Who by? Pass. Neil Lennon says he’s been targeted by the hate-mongers in Scotland and in the North here because he’s a Catholic. He’s wrong. Well no, that’s a bit harsh. […]
Can we amuse you, Ma’am?
Elizabeth II Somewhere in his writing, that great Irishman George Bernard Shaw says that the Irishman, faced with a group of expectant English people, tends to play the fool. I thought of Shaw this morning when I heard that Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, when she visits the twenty-six counties next week, will be entertained by […]
Can we amuse you, Ma’am?
Elizabeth II Somewhere in his writing, that great Irishman George Bernard Shaw says that the Irishman, faced with a group of expectant English people, tends to play the fool. I thought of Shaw this morning when I heard that Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, when she visits the twenty-six counties next week, will be entertained by […]
Unionism today: in the driving seat or careening downhill?
Tom Elliott, UUP Leader We had our last book-club meeting of the season last night (Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and very good it was too) and after we got to discussing politics. All those present, I’d feel safe in saying, were nationalists, but not everybody in the room saw things, post-election, the […]
Unionism today: in the driving seat or careening downhill?
Tom Elliott, UUP Leader We had our last book-club meeting of the season last night (Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and very good it was too) and after we got to discussing politics. All those present, I’d feel safe in saying, were nationalists, but not everybody in the room saw things, post-election, the […]
The election – what will people think of us?
Pat Sheehan MLA “What will people think of us?” the BBC presenter asked, and when he said it he reminded me of my Auntie Maggie. “What will people think of you?” she would say “with your elbows on the table and you chewing with your mouth open?” The BBC man – I think it was […]
The election – what will people think of us?
Pat Sheehan MLA “What will people think of us?” the BBC presenter asked, and when he said it he reminded me of my Auntie Maggie. “What will people think of you?” she would say “with your elbows on the table and you chewing with your mouth open?” The BBC man – I think it was […]
Open the box! (Old catch-phrase, new Assembly)
Maybe it was the lack of gouge and head-butt during the campaign or the failure of the media to treat the election with half-decent attention. (RTÉ on its nine o’clock news bulletin the day before the election had an item on AV in Britain, nothing on the North.) Either way, there’s a noticeable quickening of […]
Open the box! (Old catch-phrase, new Assembly)
Maybe it was the lack of gouge and head-butt during the campaign or the failure of the media to treat the election with half-decent attention. (RTÉ on its nine o’clock news bulletin the day before the election had an item on AV in Britain, nothing on the North.) Either way, there’s a noticeable quickening of […]