February, 2012

Last night’s ‘Prime Time’: hooray, no Miriam.

James McClean RTÉ’s Prime Time was worth watching last night,  and not just because the presenter was the cool and thoughtful Richard Crowley rather than smiling Miriam O’Callaghan, who brings new meaning to the term “confessional state”  and new depth to the old song “Ma, she’s makin’ eyes at me”. Admittedly the first part, about […]

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Last night’s ‘Prime Time’: hooray, no Miriam.

James McClean RTÉ’s Prime Time was worth watching last night,  and not just because the presenter was the cool and thoughtful Richard Crowley rather than smiling Miriam O’Callaghan, who brings new meaning to the term “confessional state”  and new depth to the old song “Ma, she’s makin’ eyes at me”. Admittedly the first part, about […]

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The rich are different

Stunned, that’s what I was. Stunned and disoriented, when I read in this morning’s Indo that thing about better-off people. Like the child in the poem, my parents kept me (or tried to keep me) from children who were rough. It was never quite explained why but I guessed from hints that these people, besides […]

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The rich are different

Stunned, that’s what I was. Stunned and disoriented, when I read in this morning’s Indo that thing about better-off people. Like the child in the poem, my parents kept me (or tried to keep me) from children who were rough. It was never quite explained why but I guessed from hints that these people, besides […]

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Nice try, judge, but…

Judge Nicholas Crichton There’s a judge in England who’s got plans for heroin users in this little north-eastern corner. No, that’s unfair – he has plans but he’s implementing them in England and he thinks it would be a good idea to implement them here as well. I’m not nearly so sure. Why so? Well, […]

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Nice try, judge, but…

Judge Nicholas Crichton There’s a judge in England who’s got plans for heroin users in this little north-eastern corner. No, that’s unfair – he has plans but he’s implementing them in England and he thinks it would be a good idea to implement them here as well. I’m not nearly so sure. Why so? Well, […]

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That supergrass trial – who’s guilty?

I knew at least one supergrass  – Eamon Collins, who later was killed, very probably by the IRA. Eamon was a likeable man with a hunger for the spotlight and in the end, he bought it at the price of his life. I thought of him yesterday, when the loyalist supergrass trial  collapsed in the […]

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That supergrass trial – who’s guilty?

I knew at least one supergrass  – Eamon Collins, who later was killed, very probably by the IRA. Eamon was a likeable man with a hunger for the spotlight and in the end, he bought it at the price of his life. I thought of him yesterday, when the loyalist supergrass trial  collapsed in the […]

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