Are you from Moygashel? If you are, you must be delighted with the expression of culture displayed by a towering bonfire with a replica mosque perched on top. Would it be going too far to suggest that this marriage of anti-immigrants and Orange bonfire is a match made…Well, you decide where the best place for such culture might be.
Sinn Féin brought a a proposal to the Dail a couple of days back, that would have encouraged the South’s government to set up a citizens assembly and produced a green paper, both examining the question. of a united Ireland. Micheál Martin, predictably, said No, Nay , Never. Could his party be done for false advertising – they do call themselves the Republican Party.
Nigel Farage has resigned his seat in the House of Commons so he can have a by-election and,um, become the MP and refill his seat.The other parties,sensibly, see this as a waste of money and won’t run candidates. But might this be a chance for Binny McBinface to challenge Nigel? Just imagine if Binny won….
Finally, Trump has declared the Iranian leaders ‘scum’. As one columnist noted, that’s the kind. of talk you’d more likely hear outside a pub at closing time. But maybe that’s exactly what Trump wants – to sound like one of the ordinary people, and identify with them as much as possible.
Loyalists hate Catholics, Irish, foreigners and brown and black people. In that order. The free state parties have zero interest in a thirty two county republic. They also hate Republicans and Loyalists, in that order. Nigel Farage is trying to paint himself as a man of the people which he is, if the people live in Monte Carlo. Trump has a cheek referring to anybody as scum. Convicted felon, serial cheater, fraudster, liar. A real cheek.
Loyalists hate Catholics, Irish, foreigners and brown and black people. In that order. The free state parties have zero interest in a thirty two county republic. They also hate Republicans and Loyalists, in that order. Nigel Farage is trying to paint himself as a man of the people which he is, if the people live in Monte Carlo. Trump has a cheek referring to anybody as scum. Convicted felon, serial cheater, fraudster, liar. A real cheek.