May, 2015

That Panorama programme

Picture by Outi Les Pyy That Panorama programme last week could be seen, for several reasons,  as a Good Thing. It laid charges of collusion in many cases where innocent Catholics/nationalists were killed. And Protestants/unionists –  the Kingsmill massacre was included as an example where state agents were active. It also – for the first […]

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Sepp Blatter vs Prince Ali: how could they?

Pictuere by rocketr Depressing, isn’t it? To think that a man with a name like that could be re-elected President of FIFA. I mean, Blatter. Sepp Blatter. Says it all really, doesn’t it? And it could have been so different. They could have elected Prince Ali. No, Virginia, Prince Ali  is not related to that […]

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HARE -BRAINED ABSURDISTS  AND GLAIKIT IMAGININGS BY Harry McAvinchey

As if we hadn’t heard and experienced  enough delusional behaviour over this past few years, yet another  intellectually challenged miscreant has popped up out of the miasma of claptrap to add his voice to the already staggeringly  risible library of crackedbrained gormlessness. You might guess that the latest revelation issued  from the mouth of another  […]

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Going, going…

  Picture by Harlem Photography Inc Sometimes you need a good laugh and yesterday the south’s government provided it. They have, they declared, after mature reflection, decided to sell their 25% share of Aer Lingus. Fianna Fail told them in effect they were a bunch of arses; Fine Gael responded by pointing out that Fianna […]

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Baseball and welfare cuts

Picture by rich rothero A:  I can’t understand half of it. B:  Half of what? A: Or even  quarter. B:  Quarter of what? A:  This Welfare Reform thing they’re talking – or rather disagreeing about – up at Stormont. B:  Ah. That’s understandable. A: Well I don’t understand it. B: I didn’t mean to suggest […]

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Getting a piece of the gay action

Picture by Mathias Boy oh boy – has this gay marriage referendum thrown up some beauties!  I thought I’d seen it all when I saw Gerry Adams embrace what looked like (from behind) an attractive young woman.  On closer inspection at a later point, however, it turned out to be Rory O’Neill?/Panti Bliss, who  must […]

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The DUP and gay marriage: a match made in hell?

Picture by Scott Spiegel How things change. A lot of us remember the clear-cut days when Ian Paisley stalked the land warning of the dangers of Eire, where they were priest-ridden, superstitious and probably still eating with their fingers on bare-earth floors. After yesterday and the success of the Yes side in the south’s gay […]

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GOD HATES IRELAND ….APPARENTLY by Harry McAvinchey

  Well …it’s the day after the referendum on Gay  Marriage in Ireland .The votes were cast and a substantial majority seems to have decided  that granting this  wish from the Fairy Godmother   would not bring the spinning planets to a screeching  stop. My daughter sent me a Facebook link this morning, warning that […]

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