In yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph (well, the online version I have is dated February 25), Nigel Dodds is making two things clear: there is ‘bad blood’ between the DUP and Sinn Féin, and it’s all Sinn Féin’s fault. After you’ve picked yourself off the floor, to which you collapsed on hearing that Nigel is blaming Sinn […]
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Trying to get empathetic with opponents of an Irish Language Act
The Revs Norman Hamilton and Martin Magill were on Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster this morning, talking about political division. Martin Magill focused particularly on social media and specifically Twitter, and suggested that people often put up statements attacking opponents in a personal way; instead of arguing a case they were intent on getting retweeted or Liked […]
Nelson McCausland: what a piece of work!
“What a piece of work is a man!” Shakespeare said. “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!/ In form and moving how express and admirable!/ In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god!” Nelson McCausland, of course, wasn’t around at the time of Shakespeare but the Bard could have had […]