Now this is what I’d call a very good day for burying a road. The day after yesterday, sort of thing. When you’ve cancelled all those fancy Fianna Fail plans for digging tunnels and sending fast-speed trains through them and all round Dublin, there couldn’t be a better time to follow up with the cancellation […]
November, 2011
How (and when) to bury a new road
Now this is what I’d call a very good day for burying a road. The day after yesterday, sort of thing. When you’ve cancelled all those fancy Fianna Fail plans for digging tunnels and sending fast-speed trains through them and all round Dublin, there couldn’t be a better time to follow up with the cancellation […]
Vincent Browne, Michael D Higgins and Father Jack
Vincent Browne is a man I like. I remember him at UCD where he was an active Fine Gaeler, but he was free from a certain condescending swank that infused others such as Henry Kelly and Sinead Cusack. But like the rest of us, Vincent gets carried away occasionally and he does so today in […]
Vincent Browne, Michael D Higgins and Father Jack
Vincent Browne is a man I like. I remember him at UCD where he was an active Fine Gaeler, but he was free from a certain condescending swank that infused others such as Henry Kelly and Sinead Cusack. But like the rest of us, Vincent gets carried away occasionally and he does so today in […]
PSNI – How are we doin’?
Ten years, eh? Doesn’t seem that long since they devised that ghastly PSNI badge that has so many symbols on it, you feel like you’re on drugs, just looking at it. They had Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie on radio and TV, being blonde and smiling and telling us how much things have changed and […]
PSNI – How are we doin’?
Ten years, eh? Doesn’t seem that long since they devised that ghastly PSNI badge that has so many symbols on it, you feel like you’re on drugs, just looking at it. They had Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie on radio and TV, being blonde and smiling and telling us how much things have changed and […]
The SDLP : the torch passes…
Pffffffftttt. But more of that later. I’ve shaken a fair number of political hands in my time. I shook hands with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (ask your ma). If I’d jumped over the top of four guys in Newcastle-upon-Tyne I could have shaken hands with US President Jimmy Carter. I’ve shaken hands with Taoiseach […]
The SDLP : the torch passes…
Pffffffftttt. But more of that later. I’ve shaken a fair number of political hands in my time. I shook hands with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (ask your ma). If I’d jumped over the top of four guys in Newcastle-upon-Tyne I could have shaken hands with US President Jimmy Carter. I’ve shaken hands with Taoiseach […]
Being an SDLP leader – Lord, you know it ain’t easy.
The SDLP must think they’re living under a curse. It started around the turn of the century, when Sinn Féin moved out and passed them on the electoral road, and varoomed off into the middle distance. More immediately they must feel particularly jinxed. They were arguing over their leadership as Sinn Féin rolled into Belfast […]
Being an SDLP leader – Lord, you know it ain’t easy.
The SDLP must think they’re living under a curse. It started around the turn of the century, when Sinn Féin moved out and passed them on the electoral road, and varoomed off into the middle distance. More immediately they must feel particularly jinxed. They were arguing over their leadership as Sinn Féin rolled into Belfast […]