ME: So. Edwin Poots has withdrawn workers who were checking on animal and food products coming from Britain into the N(E)I VIRGINIA: Will they still be paid while on gardening leave? ME: You’d have to ask Edwin Poots that one. VIRGINIA: Is it that they’re afraid loyalist paramilitaries may attack the checkers? ME: Well, the […]
February, 2021
PAT + JUDE TALK ABOUT BLOODY SUNDAY, THE LATEST LUCID TALK POLITICAL POLL, AND BANKS.BLOODY BANKS
Last Saturday was the 49th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Did you know that? Do people care any more that 14 people were shot dead in broad daylight by the British Army, and no one has ever been tried for the multiple murder? The Latest Lucid Talk polls show Sinn Féin as the most popular party […]
TV review – Question Time
QUESTION TIME (BBC ONE) came from our own dear North(east)ern Ireland (NEI) last Friday. Or maybe I should say it was about our own dear NEI, since apart from a few well-spaced studio guests, Fiona Bruce had all contributors on Zoom, with Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill getting big screens and the ordinary punters smaller […]