2025年1月3日 · One of very few advantages of getting older is that you can look back and see patterns developing over decades, patterns that were not immediately obvious at the time. During the Brexit Referendum campaign and its aftermath, people like Dominic Cummings came to prominence and most of them talked about ‘disruptive leadership’ in a positive way. As someone who worked in the field of ICT, I ...

4 天之前 · Brian Pope 31 January 2025 The DUP can solve the Housebuilding Crisis by supporting Water Charges… 1407 This week’s Infrastructure debate in the Assembly was described to me as truly depressing. It was yet another lost opportunity to try and solve the growing wastewater crisis which is engulfing both the housebuilding and the construction sectors. The Infrastructure … read Arnold Carton ...

2025年1月3日 · If you were at the Slugger End of Year Review in December (and if you weren’t we hope you had a good excuse as you missed a great evening), you’ll have been treated to an excellent and engaging conversation between Alex Kane and Allison Morris where they reviewed our tumultuous 2024 (which saw power-sharing restored, three changes in the leadership of political parties and not one, but TWO ...

2024年12月20日 · Having won the Six Nations, tied a series with the Springboks in South Africa, and won 3 out of four November internationals, Ireland stands ranked #2 in the world, which is some improvement on our quarterfinal exit at the hands of New Zealand in the World cup in October 2023. That ranking can be deceptive, however. Ireland’s performance against the All Blacks at the World Cup was much ...

2025年1月2日 · More signs of the end times as a DUP MP defends the Latin Mass. Traditionally, the DUP have been no fans of the Catholic Church, with Ian Paisley famously branding the Pope the Antichrist and some DUP members even questioning if Catholics are even Christians. From the BelTel: A veteran DUP MP and Orangeman is being hailed by right-wing Catholic traditionalists after he pressed the Westminster ...

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 ...

2024年9月17日 · Last Friday the 13th September, hundreds of people from across the UK gathered at Queen’s University Belfast to call on the Northern Ireland Executive to extend the right to vote in elections to 16- and 17-year-olds in Northern Ireland. The grassroots, youth-led campaign is supported by Politics in Action. Northern Ireland is the only devolved region where 16 and 17 years olds can’t vote ...

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 ...

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 ...

2025年1月16日 · Alliance Party leader and Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long is somebody who is rarely interviewed or profiled by the Southern media, and almost never appears on public platforms in the Republic. But she is an impressive woman. I was at the latest ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South) event in Dublin last month to hear her talk about ‘My Identity’. This ...