Last week, Micheål Martin used the Shared Island fund to push €50 million towards the development of third level education. This follows Stephen Donnelly (also of Fianna Fail) shoving €10 million towards creating nursing places In the North. Is this creeping reunification of Ireland, or politicians getting read for the next election?
The Orange Order is once more becoming vocal about the need for them to be allowed to parade down the Garvaghy Road. “Never!” you say. But supposing it was part of a deal that’d bring the DUP back into Stormont?
Fintan O’Toole in this morning’s Irish Times claims that the south are not really neutral, that with a few exceptions they follow Britain’s lead. Is he right? Should he be right?
And finally, the Beatles – or Paul McCartney – are mounting a series of early-days photographs they took of each other into an exhibition which will be in the National Portrait Gallery in London. If you were in London, would you go to see the exhibition? And what sort of appeal do the Beatles have, so many decades since they began?
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