Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
2 天之前 · Terry Wright 23 January 2025 Unionism needs to turn its values into positive action aimed at building a better Northern Ireland for all 1739 The decision made by Secretary of State Hilary Benn MP with regard to the Stormont Brake can be added to the litany of Unionist ‘tilting at the windmills’ strategies. Unionism has to understand that if you created it, you have … read Slugger Team 23 ...
Challenging Traditions: Reimagining Northern Irish Identity…
2024年10月4日 · Catherine Pollock (no relation – different spelling) from Derry is an unusual and remarkable woman. From a working class unionist background, she now works for the Irish language and cultural organisation Cultúrlann. She says of herself: “I’m not a unionist, but I’m not a nationalist or a republican either. I am British, and also Irish. My politics are left of …
Talking a Load of Old Boulevards… – Slugger O'Toole
2024年10月5日 · As stated numerous times on here, IMHO Northern Ireland’s greatest advantage (long since squandered) and to a lesser extent the republic’s was (is…?) how far behind the curve of modernity we are (were). When plans for new-fangled shiny baubles such as ‘hypermarkets’, retail parks, drive-thrus and MASSIVE pubs were being submitted by developers all we had to do was send out a few fact ...
Is 2025 the year for Unionist Re-Alignment? – Slugger O'Toole
2025年1月4日 · A new article today from Sam McBride in ‘the Belfast Telegraph’ wherein he reveals that there have been ongoing talks regarding the holy grail of Unionist unity since 2022. The article, Secret DUP-UUP talks in 2022 failed –but unionist unity may now be closer than any time since 1971, is behind a paywall but is a very interesting read and if you are a subscriber to the Telegraph, please ...
#GE24 candidates in numbers and charts – Slugger O'Toole
2024年6月8日 · The parties with the highest proportion of female candidates are Aontú and the Conservatives (60%, 6 apiece).Alliance is the fielding the largest number of women (8), followed by the SDLP (7).Leaving aside Cross Community Labour Alternative which only has 1 candidate, the TUV has the greatest proportion of men nominated as candidates (85.7%) followed by the UUP (82.4%) and the DUP (81.3%).
After the election, even if the DUP faces a crisis then the rest of ...
2024年7月17日 · In the doldrum life of Northern Ireland politics losing one seat is a misfortune, two careless, three criminally negligent. To have escaped two more potential losses is a serious warning from the future for the DUP that for too long played just one card. Since the writ of that one card trick (keeping the FM’s job for unionism) ran out in the last Assembly election in 2022 the party has been ...
A do-nothing Programme for a do-nothing Executive
2024年9月28日 · A couple of weeks back, the sixth Northern Ireland Executive released its draft Programme for Government.. Coming over six months after the Executive was formed in February, following a gap in office of around two years, a naive observer might have had high hopes for this document, especially given that, during the election campaign in 2022, most of the parties talked up a good game about ...
Controversial Army General, Sir Mike Jackson dies aged 80…
2024年10月16日 · From the BBC: The death of General Sir Mike Jackson will not be mourned by the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday, the chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust has said. Gen Jackson, who went on to become head of the Army, was a Parachute Regiment captain in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 when soldiers shot dead 13 civil rights demonstrators. He died aged 80 on Tuesday. The British Army said ...
Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
3 天之前 · Brian O’Neill 22 January 2025 Instead of more peelers, can we have more of the people who can reduce the workload of the police? 378 Chief Constable Jon Boutcher is in the news, asking for 200 million to help increase police numbers from 6300 to 7000. The PSNI is starting a recruitment drive tomorrow should any of you fancy a career change. As I have … read Slugger Team 22 January 2025 ...
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a ...
2018年4月18日 · This morning I came across this classic clip from The Monty Python and the Holy Grail film. Ever after 40 years, it is still a great send-up of our political system. Enjoy. A self-perpetuating autocracy King Arthur: Old woman! Dennis: Man. King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there? Dennis: I’m 37. King Arthur: What? Dennis: I’m 37. I’m not old. King Arthur ...
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