Opinion polls are a bit like the weather. One minute they have you feeling that life is going the wrong way entirely and what’s the point of it all? Other days the sun glistens on trees and grass and you feel glad to be alive amid all this beauty and bliss. The famous ‘Northern Irish’ poll […]
June, 2013
Polls and a play:outlook sunny
Opinion polls are a bit like the weather. One minute they have you feeling that life is going the wrong way entirely and what’s the point of it all? Other days the sun glistens on trees and grass and you feel glad to be alive amid all this beauty and bliss. The famous ‘Northern Irish’ poll […]
So tell me this: what’s murder and what’s not?
There must be better things to do on a glorious summer morning than write about killing and murder, but it’s one of those things that keeps coming up. The matter of murder seems to hold great fascination for a lot of peoplehere, particularly murder as it relates to the Troubles and more particularly as it […]
So tell me this: what’s murder and what’s not?
There must be better things to do on a glorious summer morning than write about killing and murder, but it’s one of those things that keeps coming up. The matter of murder seems to hold great fascination for a lot of peoplehere, particularly murder as it relates to the Troubles and more particularly as it […]
Chewing the SPAD rag with Malachi on Nolan
listen to ‘Jude Collins and Malachi ODoherty discuss the passing of the SPAD bill at Stormont last night’ on Audioboo
Chewing the SPAD rag with Malachi on Nolan
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Red herrings and back where we started
I’m just off the Nolan Show, where my sparring partner Malachi O’Doherty managed for a time to claim that the last few days have been about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the IRA campaign. Anyone who’s ever read Malachi will know he believes it was illegitimate and never loses a chance to say so. His […]
Red herrings and back where we started
I’m just off the Nolan Show, where my sparring partner Malachi O’Doherty managed for a time to claim that the last few days have been about the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the IRA campaign. Anyone who’s ever read Malachi will know he believes it was illegitimate and never loses a chance to say so. His […]
The SDLP and victims
A reader of my blog yesterday noted that I hadn’t included Alasdair McDonnell’s statement where he made clear he believed there was a hierarchy of victims, and that Paul Kavanagh was “well down the pecking order”. My commenter was right, and on reflection I should have focused on the hierarchy point, because today the airwaves […]
The SDLP and victims
A reader of my blog yesterday noted that I hadn’t included Alasdair McDonnell’s statement where he made clear he believed there was a hierarchy of victims, and that Paul Kavanagh was “well down the pecking order”. My commenter was right, and on reflection I should have focused on the hierarchy point, because today the airwaves […]