Picture by odcat1 I was on the Nolan Show this morning, with Jim Allister and Ruth Dudley Edwards. The topic, of course, was the upcoming handshake of Gerry Adams with Prince Charles in Galway, as the Windsor One heads for Mullaghmore and the site of his great-uncle’s killing. Jim, predictably, found a lot to […]
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The media and moral outrage
So was Gerry Adams wrong to speak as he did on CBS’s 60 Minutes, which was shown last night? Apparently the interviewer, Scott Pelley, speaking of Jean McConville, put the loaded question “How do you orphan ten children? What kind of depravity is that?” Gerry Adams’s answer was “That’s what happens in wars. That’s not to […]
The media: they’ll do your thinking for you
How important would you say the media are? If you said ‘Very’ you were probably near the mark. ‘Extremely’ would also have qualified and so would ‘stupendously’. Think about it. Do you know Barack Obama? Robert Mugabe? David Cameron? Most people, even though they’ve never met or even glimpsed any of these men in the […]
Gerry Adams, claims, fact and the Irish Times
It didn’t take long. Yesterday in the Letters column of the Irish Times, Gerry Adams noted that said newspaper had clearly set out its stall as firmly in opposition to Sinn Féin being worthy to be in government in the south, or to have any hand, act or part in government. Swift as a thunderbolt, […]
Talking about Ruth and age
Man 1: What do you think of old Ruth? Man 2: Old Ruth who? Man 2: There’s only one old Ruth – Dudley Edwards. Man 1: That’s got the makings of a chant in it: ‘There’s only one Ruth Dudley Edwards, one Ruth Dudley Eeeeedwards…’ Man 2: Yes but why do you call her ‘old […]
Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams: what if?
It’s funny how the unthinkable can, when you’re not looking, turn into the thinkable. Ten, fifteen years back, it would have been unthinkable that Martin McGuinness would have found ways to work with Ian Paisley, and vice versa. Chalk and cheese, oil and water, the immovable meets the unstoppable. But they did. And those who […]
Tomorrow : squeaky-bum time in Greece. And Ireland
Tomorrow could decide the outcome of the south’s election. “WHA-A-T?” I hear you yell. “The south’s election isn’t until 2016 – have you gone mad?” Well the jury is still out on that last question but let me remind you that tomorrow there will be a general election in Greece. The party the polls suggest […]