Author Harry McAvinchey

It’s officially Spring in my world now. There’s always more to life than the shenanigans and witterings of red-faced politicians…. Wednesday 9th of March at about 12.30 post meridiam ,to be exact. That was when my honeybees officially took flight from their hives.I wondered for some weeks now if they had actually survived this long […]

Is unionism really ready for all the changes heading our way? You wouldn’t believe that was the case when you consider the past performances of some of their politicians in these past months and years .The world is rapidly changing in these past fifteen years since the Twin Towers bombing in New York. Europe and […]

  Does Mr or Mrs Chimpanzee believe in God? That’s an odd thought, isn’t it? How would you even know what lay behind their inscrutable eyes , deep in the core of the convoluted brain of our nearest and dearest simian cousin, for Dear’s sake? Those kind of ideas might not occur to many as […]

Wouldn’t you know it? …If a new way of screwing up life in Norneverland could be found, our dithering politicians would find it and sit on their hands. They can’t find the time or the money to make a feasability study and re-instate a train line to the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland . Yes , […]

Don’t tell me that Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) man Sammy(there’s no such thing as Global Warming) Wilson ,has agreed with comments of a racist nature .It appears so at first hearing .Should any of us be surprised? I don’t really think so .This seems to be only more in a long litany of similar comments […]

There much talk at the moment on local radio concerning a “graphic novel” about the life of Bobby Sands the Irish republican hunger -striker, so before we go any further I’ll lay out my stall.For one thing I’ve never liked the term “graphic novel” and I’ll explain in more detail presently. The first thing I’d […]

Why are Nationalists and Unionists on opposite sides in relation to Europe? What’s going on there? Why do the most dyed- in -the -wool conservatives want to get away from the institutions of the European Union and why do they appear to be all of a unionist or “Little Englander” persuasion? That’s a question worth […]

People choose to believe some very odd things and then go to great lengths to prove to themselves the truth of their need to believe them. All the better if there is a glamorous “supernatural” slant involved or a dream of wish-fulfillment.There is a need to enjoy a little of that kind of colourful theatre […]

There’s been another debate ? …You don’t say? Was it the same as the first one? It’s all perception. I can’t pretend to know all the intricacies of political life or the back-stories of all the politicians involved in the Republic of Ireland.Are they really so interesting that I’d want to do that? There was […]

Look here now! There’s no really easy way to say this . If you are a creature associated in any way whatsoever with something called the “Caleb Foundation”, that bastion of Norneverland Creationism, you simply have to go right back and start your life all over again. Yes…I’m afraid , you’ll have to re-run everything […]