Sometimes I’m glad I’m not living in the twenty-six- county state to the south. Not because their health service is an obscenity, not because of the grossly uneven distribution of wealth (although both would be good reasons in themselves) but because I’d be in serious danger of buying a fake version of northern politics. There’s […]
April, 2017
‘The Giant’s Causeway story book’ by Randall Stephen Hall
The Giant’s Causeway story book. A colourful illustrated re-telling, with a very local feel. Releasing the New 21st Anniversary Edition 1996-2017. Keeping the faith with his original intentions, Randall Stephen Hall has just announced the 21st Year Anniversary Edition of his entertaining illustrated re-telling of the Giant’s Causeway legend. www.randallstephenhall.com “In 1995, on a holiday […]
‘MACUSHLA, MACUSHLA, YOUR SWEET VOICE IS CALLING, not’ by Perkin Warbeck.
The PULSE has been in the news of late on Liffeyside. For those who live north of the Black Sow’s Dyke the PULSE is an acronym for: -Police Using Leading System ,erm, Effectively. Which is the computer system used by An Garda SÍochána. (AGS). The use of the verb ‘Effectively’ is enough to take […]
‘Rhiannon Giddens has a message for us all’ by John Patton
In ‘At the Purchaser’s Option’ , the superb Rhiannon Giddens in her bravura performance at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh , on Sunday, reminded us that the buyer had the choice whether to buy or refuse their new slaves’ babies. That number was inspired by an 18th century slave advertisement. Giddens told us that as a parent she […]
‘BY THEIR FRUITS SHALL YOU KNOW THEM: Chapter 1. O’Connell, Redmond, McGuinness’ by Donal Kennedy
= Daniel O’Connell harnessed popular opinion for Repeal of the Union imposed by Britain on Ireland. Perhaps he lacked the eloquence and fortitude of a Farage or Gove, a Boris Johnson or a Theresa May, but when massed British artillery were deployed to prevent a peaceful, unarmed meeting of his supporters he called the […]
‘Stormont files reveal fears over health, crime and investment after Brexit’ by Niall McCracken
The Detail, 05 April 2017 NORTHERN Ireland’s most senior civil servants have produced research outlining the impact a lack of EU funding will have across Stormont Departments. Internal emails show that within hours of the UK decision to leave the European Union (EU), the head of the civil service Sir Malcolm McKibbin asked the permanent secretary […]
‘Harris –still hypocritical’ by Joe McVeigh
I have mentioned Eoghan Harris before and wrote about how disgruntled he is about Sinn Fein’s success in the polls. However, irrespective of this growing support for SF, Harris still refuses to accept that the people have freely elected members of that party in free and fair elections in the north and in the south. […]
WHO MISSES STORMONT?
Does anyone miss Stormont? If you believed the media…”The Meedja”…. you might feel that you were at sixes and sevens about the lack of local government. I mean …maybe you really are very agitated about the whole scenario that has developed since the RHI scandal and its following shoal of lesser scandals capsized the government […]
On dragging old British soldiers from their retirement homes
Dennis Hutchings is a British Army veteran with a chestful of medals. He’s very angry about the fact that he and other veterans from the conflict in our North-East Nest (NEN) are facing the prospect of being charged for killings they were involved with during the Troubles. The way Dennis sees it, several Tory MPs, […]
BONES OF CONTENTION: Article on Roger Casement
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