July, 2012

I’ve just come off the Nolan Show, where I was urged to get down to Belfast City Hall area and join in the Orange festivities, come together and all that. Since I’m in Sligo, I’d find that a bit difficult. Why am I in Sligo? Because it’s the Twelfth, stoopid, and most non-Orangemen and women […]

I’ve just come off the Nolan Show, where I was urged to get down to Belfast City Hall area and join in the Orange festivities, come together and all that. Since I’m in Sligo, I’d find that a bit difficult. Why am I in Sligo? Because it’s the Twelfth, stoopid, and most non-Orangemen and women […]

So Peter Robinson wants Martin McGuinness investigated. Mmm. An investigation by the PSNI over thirty years after the killing of 14 people on Bloody Sunday (yes, I know, I know – slow isn’t the word for it) has irritated the First Minister. Look, he says, if they’re going to investigate those who carried out the […]

So Peter Robinson wants Martin McGuinness investigated. Mmm. An investigation by the PSNI over thirty years after the killing of 14 people on Bloody Sunday (yes, I know, I know – slow isn’t the word for it) has irritated the First Minister. Look, he says, if they’re going to investigate those who carried out the […]

With the Twelfth bearing down on us like a neutered pit-bull high on ecstasy, it’s good to know the Orange Order has retained its sense of humour. Even though it was expected to disrupt traffic, hundreds of Orangemen were to assemble in a field somewhere near Kesh, Co Fermanagh, in an attempt to beat the […]

With the Twelfth bearing down on us like a neutered pit-bull high on ecstasy, it’s good to know the Orange Order has retained its sense of humour. Even though it was expected to disrupt traffic, hundreds of Orangemen were to assemble in a field somewhere near Kesh, Co Fermanagh, in an attempt to beat the […]

It’s not always that I agree with the Dean of Northern Journalism, Eamonn Mallie. But I’m with him on this one – John Hume accepting a papal knighthood would be – although Eamonn would never stoop to such language – a crock of shit. For a start there’s the timing. No, not because as Eamonn […]

It’s not always that I agree with the Dean of Northern Journalism, Eamonn Mallie. But I’m with him on this one – John Hume accepting a papal knighthood would be – although Eamonn would never stoop to such language – a crock of shit. For a start there’s the timing. No, not because as Eamonn […]

Did  I read somewhere that Kate Hoey was in a snit because somebody kept referring to ‘Britain’ when they should have been referring to ‘the UK’, the reason being that  to say ‘Britain’ would be to leave Northern Ireland out, even though as we all know, we’re all British here. Although though a good number […]

Did  I read somewhere that Kate Hoey was in a snit because somebody kept referring to ‘Britain’ when they should have been referring to ‘the UK’, the reason being that  to say ‘Britain’ would be to leave Northern Ireland out, even though as we all know, we’re all British here. Although though a good number […]