Funny how religion and politics can criss-cross. Here we are in the mouth of Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus with all its implications, and within days of that feast the Economic and Social Research Institute in the south has come up with some new and slightly startling research about babies. According to the […]
December, 2011
Babies call the shots
Funny how religion and politics can criss-cross. Here we are in the mouth of Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus with all its implications, and within days of that feast the Economic and Social Research Institute in the south has come up with some new and slightly startling research about babies. According to the […]
Evidence? What need have we of evidence?
A few decades ago I was trying to make a radio programme about people who’d been interned on the prison ship Argenta during the 1920s. I was tipped off that one 80-something survivor might give me an interview, so I found my way, after some searching, to his house. Wasted journey. He told me – […]
Evidence? What need have we of evidence?
A few decades ago I was trying to make a radio programme about people who’d been interned on the prison ship Argenta during the 1920s. I was tipped off that one 80-something survivor might give me an interview, so I found my way, after some searching, to his house. Wasted journey. He told me – […]
Spies like us
I’m baffled. Honestly. As a non-military or spook-person, I don’t understand the latest claims that nearly half those in the IRA leadership were in fact British agents. We know that some IRA people – the various supergrasses, Denis Donaldson – were working for the British from within republican paramilitary ranks. But nearly half? My first […]
Spies like us
I’m baffled. Honestly. As a non-military or spook-person, I don’t understand the latest claims that nearly half those in the IRA leadership were in fact British agents. We know that some IRA people – the various supergrasses, Denis Donaldson – were working for the British from within republican paramilitary ranks. But nearly half? My first […]
Suarez – outrageous, eh?
Who would be in Luis Suarez’s shoes this morning? Or boots. The Uruguayan, who’s been central to Liverpool F C’s recently revival, has been banned for eight games and fined £40,000 for racially abusing Patrice Evra, a black Man United player. It seems Suarez admitted to calling Evra “a negro”. (Evra, on the other […]
Suarez – outrageous, eh?
Who would be in Luis Suarez’s shoes this morning? Or boots. The Uruguayan, who’s been central to Liverpool F C’s recently revival, has been banned for eight games and fined £40,000 for racially abusing Patrice Evra, a black Man United player. It seems Suarez admitted to calling Evra “a negro”. (Evra, on the other […]
Dead men, tale-telling and history
Dead men, they say, tell no tales. But if they’re part of the Boston College oral history project, they do. The project, you’ll remember, was the series of interviews organized by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre with a selection of former combatants in our Troubles. The promise was that these would be recorded and kept […]
Dead men, tale-telling and history
Dead men, they say, tell no tales. But if they’re part of the Boston College oral history project, they do. The project, you’ll remember, was the series of interviews organized by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre with a selection of former combatants in our Troubles. The promise was that these would be recorded and kept […]