Listening to the unionist councillor on Nolan earlier speaking about shared space, when he was asked about UVF/UDA murals being offensive to Nationalists. He missed the irony, when he said “these were 100% loyalist estates and therefore, not shared spaces. So it would appear that the only spaces to b shared are Nationalist spaces; that Nationalist culture has to be watered down if it has to be awarded state money but loyalist culture must be given money without modification to being more Nationalist friendly..
Rather than PULC culture being chipped away by nationalists it is actually nationalist culture being frontally attacked by loyalists/unionist politicians.
Caught up with your contribution on the Talkback Show, Esteemed Blogmeister: as usual, clear as a mountain stream.
No wonder your appearances on wireless shows on Liffeyside are as rare as the teeth of Foghorn, I say, the teeth of Foghorn Leghorn.
The host used a not inappropriate phrase which caught the ear: ‘funding streams’.
Hmmm.
One couldn’t help wondering if the threat of withholding said ‘funding streams’ was to do with deleting the ‘green’ element in the Glens of Antrim?
The usual looderamawning whinge that the GAA was a (gulp) politico/ cultural organization rather than ‘just’ a sporting one was (yawn) heard. As if it were the GAA (b. 1884) which introduced the concept of sporting politics into Irish life. Into naming grounds after and erecting statues to terrs, such as Michael Cusack in Croke Park, even though he was only a holy terror (c.f., Ulysses).
Statues with an extra ‘t’ are the key to this outburst of looderamawning. Consider, for a mo, the StatuTes of Kilkenny which were enacted in the Year of our Lords and Masters , 1366. While Compulsory (gulp) English was the key element of this attempt to put the Cat into Catastrophe for Celtic Ireland, a not unimportant factor was the elimination of (gasp) ‘savage local past-times’.
Sadly, given the recent, rather robust state of rude good health which hurling / stick fighting has experienced in (gasp) Kilkenny, this attempt by King Edward 111 of England to marry sport with politics in Eireland would seem to have not been entirely successful.
Indeed, the s-word is ironically, perhaps, one of the most oft-heard of adjectives in post hurling game discussions:
-Radio Person: Well, bainisteoir, what did you make of that game?
-Bainisteoir: Savage.
Which reminds one that the absence of the B-word made its presence felt on the radio programme:
-Black Mail.
It is not all that long ago ( not quite as far back as 1366) that the Da and Ma of a brouhaha was stirred up by the inappropriate use of the N-word. The N-word favoured by, erm, Black Males to ironically describe theyselves. (See under the S-word above).
To the neutral, detached and disinterested ears of at least one Liffeyside listener there was a distinct whiff of black mail about the Oisingate stalemate.
Being the compromising kind of listener he looked to his inner Bank-i-Moon and focused on the first name of same. By magicking up the Year of our L. and Masters, 1690.
Step 1: If the event of all else failing, perhaps the GAA club might consider attaching a cross-community image of King Bill to the gates bearing the names of the two Unmentionables.
Step 2: Rechristen the entrance (gulp) ‘Bill Gates’.
Step 3: Send the bill to the critter who regained the title of the World’s Least Deserving of the Title Pauper as recently as late week, even as the above political sliotar was being pucked about.
(Technical note: GAA rules specifically state that 3 steps are the max allowed the hurler on the ditch with sliotar in hand).
Listening to the unionist councillor on Nolan earlier speaking about shared space, when he was asked about UVF/UDA murals being offensive to Nationalists. He missed the irony, when he said “these were 100% loyalist estates and therefore, not shared spaces. So it would appear that the only spaces to b shared are Nationalist spaces; that Nationalist culture has to be watered down if it has to be awarded state money but loyalist culture must be given money without modification to being more Nationalist friendly..
Rather than PULC culture being chipped away by nationalists it is actually nationalist culture being frontally attacked by loyalists/unionist politicians.
Caught up with your contribution on the Talkback Show, Esteemed Blogmeister: as usual, clear as a mountain stream.
No wonder your appearances on wireless shows on Liffeyside are as rare as the teeth of Foghorn, I say, the teeth of Foghorn Leghorn.
The host used a not inappropriate phrase which caught the ear: ‘funding streams’.
Hmmm.
One couldn’t help wondering if the threat of withholding said ‘funding streams’ was to do with deleting the ‘green’ element in the Glens of Antrim?
The usual looderamawning whinge that the GAA was a (gulp) politico/ cultural organization rather than ‘just’ a sporting one was (yawn) heard. As if it were the GAA (b. 1884) which introduced the concept of sporting politics into Irish life. Into naming grounds after and erecting statues to terrs, such as Michael Cusack in Croke Park, even though he was only a holy terror (c.f., Ulysses).
Statues with an extra ‘t’ are the key to this outburst of looderamawning. Consider, for a mo, the StatuTes of Kilkenny which were enacted in the Year of our Lords and Masters , 1366. While Compulsory (gulp) English was the key element of this attempt to put the Cat into Catastrophe for Celtic Ireland, a not unimportant factor was the elimination of (gasp) ‘savage local past-times’.
Sadly, given the recent, rather robust state of rude good health which hurling / stick fighting has experienced in (gasp) Kilkenny, this attempt by King Edward 111 of England to marry sport with politics in Eireland would seem to have not been entirely successful.
Indeed, the s-word is ironically, perhaps, one of the most oft-heard of adjectives in post hurling game discussions:
-Radio Person: Well, bainisteoir, what did you make of that game?
-Bainisteoir: Savage.
Which reminds one that the absence of the B-word made its presence felt on the radio programme:
-Black Mail.
It is not all that long ago ( not quite as far back as 1366) that the Da and Ma of a brouhaha was stirred up by the inappropriate use of the N-word. The N-word favoured by, erm, Black Males to ironically describe theyselves. (See under the S-word above).
To the neutral, detached and disinterested ears of at least one Liffeyside listener there was a distinct whiff of black mail about the Oisingate stalemate.
Being the compromising kind of listener he looked to his inner Bank-i-Moon and focused on the first name of same. By magicking up the Year of our L. and Masters, 1690.
Step 1: If the event of all else failing, perhaps the GAA club might consider attaching a cross-community image of King Bill to the gates bearing the names of the two Unmentionables.
Step 2: Rechristen the entrance (gulp) ‘Bill Gates’.
Step 3: Send the bill to the critter who regained the title of the World’s Least Deserving of the Title Pauper as recently as late week, even as the above political sliotar was being pucked about.
(Technical note: GAA rules specifically state that 3 steps are the max allowed the hurler on the ditch with sliotar in hand).