With good news you gotta take the bad news. So good news this morning. It appears that Campbell College in Belfast is launching a major drive to recruit boarding pupils from the south. Excellent. The more that people north and south get to know about each other, the less likely they are to believe in […]
August, 2011
Campbell College: buddy, can you spare €12,500?
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Jim Wells and the GAA – the guy can’t help it
It’s my guess that when Jim Wells goes home in the evening, he’s as nice a man as you could find. Not a bit stiff or tight-lipped or monotone. Chances are he’s a ray of sunshine, glancing cheerfully off loved ones and domestic appliances in the Wells household. Why, you ask me, don’t the rest […]
Jim Wells and the GAA – the guy can’t help it
It’s my guess that when Jim Wells goes home in the evening, he’s as nice a man as you could find. Not a bit stiff or tight-lipped or monotone. Chances are he’s a ray of sunshine, glancing cheerfully off loved ones and domestic appliances in the Wells household. Why, you ask me, don’t the rest […]
Marian and the colonel
It’s amazing the things people know. I was listening to the radio this morning and Marian Finucane was on RTÉ asking some reporter on the spot if Colonel Gaddafi’s “42-year reign of terror’ was definitely about to end. How did she know that, I wonder? Maybe Marian is right, and from the moment he took […]
Marian and the colonel
It’s amazing the things people know. I was listening to the radio this morning and Marian Finucane was on RTÉ asking some reporter on the spot if Colonel Gaddafi’s “42-year reign of terror’ was definitely about to end. How did she know that, I wonder? Maybe Marian is right, and from the moment he took […]
QE2’s visit to Ireland – a huge tourism boost, right? Um, wrong.
George Orwell was very good on memory and politics. In both Animal Farm and 1984, he shows how those ruling had a way of saying something and then, when events turned out otherwise, saying something different and/or denying they’d said the original thing. They did it so convincingly, the animals/people ended up wondering if they’d […]
QE2’s visit to Ireland – a huge tourism boost, right? Um, wrong.
George Orwell was very good on memory and politics. In both Animal Farm and 1984, he shows how those ruling had a way of saying something and then, when events turned out otherwise, saying something different and/or denying they’d said the original thing. They did it so convincingly, the animals/people ended up wondering if they’d […]
Do buildings talk?
Do buildings talk? I was at Milan Central Railway Station last week and it seemed to me it didn’t so much talk as shout. And while it was shouting, it gripped me by my shirt-front and gave me a good shake to show who was boss. Its frontage is grey and muscular, packed with […]
Do buildings talk?
Do buildings talk? I was at Milan Central Railway Station last week and it seemed to me it didn’t so much talk as shout. And while it was shouting, it gripped me by my shirt-front and gave me a good shake to show who was boss. Its frontage is grey and muscular, packed with […]