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 […]
May, 2015
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SPRINGTIME AND THE HONEYBEES AND BUILDING SOLID FOUNDATIONS by Harry McAvinchey
This might read like some parallel critique about the current state of our local government , but it’s not . It’s about real life outside the hallowed walls of Stormont. It’s about the real world…..but you can draw any conclusions you like…. These are busy days .The weather is still unstable for Springtime, compared […]
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 […]
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 […]
Periscope thoughts:Two men shake hands and two women get mad…
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 […]
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 […]