Given that I put my Catherine Seeley interview up on this site yesterday, it’s only fair that I put up the interview with Fermanagh and Tyrone’s next MP as well….It’ll take a minute or two to download. It’s worth it. MICHELLE GILDERNEW INTERVIEW 1
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Oh, those primitive people in Fermanagh/South Tyrone!
So. You enjoying the coverage of the election campaign in Fermanagh/South Tyrone? Thanks to BBC and UTV reports, it’s now clear that Fermanagh/South Tyrone is stuck in the past. Almost daily references, verbal and visual, to the ‘dreary steeples’ and people mindlessly and tribally voting for orange or green. We still haven’t learnt, we’re told, […]
Learning about cause and effect (or not)
My son and his wife live in London and they like to send us short videos of their six-month-old daughter. In the most recent one, you see her seated beside her father, who has a guitar. Róisín reaches her fingers and plucks at the strings, and you can see her astonishment as they sound. Within […]
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis: the economics of Irish unity
About three hours before Gerry Adams’s barn-storming Ard Fheis speech, a fringe event took place in a lower room at the Millenium Forum. It was chaired by Michelle Gildernew, who a few hours later would introduce Gerry Adams for That Speech; the panellists were Dr Conor Patterson, CEO of Newry and Mourne Enterprise Agency, and Michael Burke, an independent […]