March, 2012

Enda and Edwin field the questions

There were two men on television yesterday – both politicians – who looked as though all they wanted was to find a dark room where they could lock the door and lie down. The punch-drunk features in both cases were understandable – the two men had been or were being subject to questions that were […]

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Enda and Edwin field the questions

There were two men on television yesterday – both politicians – who looked as though all they wanted was to find a dark room where they could lock the door and lie down. The punch-drunk features in both cases were understandable – the two men had been or were being subject to questions that were […]

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Racial abuse and the Indo’s attitude

Sometimes you just feel ashamed to be Irish. I was browsing through some old copies of the Irish Independent  the other day and I came on a report of a football game ‘way back between Ireland and Kenya. The report is headed “What? A whining darkie?” It goes on to deal with a complaint made […]

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Racial abuse and the Indo’s attitude

Sometimes you just feel ashamed to be Irish. I was browsing through some old copies of the Irish Independent  the other day and I came on a report of a football game ‘way back between Ireland and Kenya. The report is headed “What? A whining darkie?” It goes on to deal with a complaint made […]

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The Mahon Inquiry: the familiar smell of corruption

There can be few sights more fun than to watch a population drenched in moral perspiration. A fair example was on show on RTÉ’s The Frontline  last night. The panel and the audience and Pat Kenny were beating their bosoms and rending their hair, or rather beating the bosoms and rending the hair of the […]

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The Mahon Inquiry: the familiar smell of corruption

There can be few sights more fun than to watch a population drenched in moral perspiration. A fair example was on show on RTÉ’s The Frontline  last night. The panel and the audience and Pat Kenny were beating their bosoms and rending their hair, or rather beating the bosoms and rending the hair of the […]

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Brian gets a bit cross

I see where my old stable-mate and fellow-baldy at the VO, Brian Feeney, is getting  cross with Gerry Adams. Very cross. He says Gerry spoke to an audience in Co Derry and he misled them. Apparently he told them that Owen Paterson had dismissed the possibility of a border poll; Brian says the Good Friday […]

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Brian gets a bit cross

I see where my old stable-mate and fellow-baldy at the VO, Brian Feeney, is getting  cross with Gerry Adams. Very cross. He says Gerry spoke to an audience in Co Derry and he misled them. Apparently he told them that Owen Paterson had dismissed the possibility of a border poll; Brian says the Good Friday […]

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