Yearly Archives: 2012

“Welcome To Norn Iron”

Posted on August 7, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

It must be nice to live in a place where the “Welcome” signs are not controversial. The main story in today’s Irish News, the Belfast morning newspaper read by the North of Ireland’s nationalist/republican/Catholic community has been about the erection … Continue reading →

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Wendy Puts A Stick In The Wheels

Posted on August 7, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Wendy Houvenaghel will forgive me for having to look up the spelling of her name on Wikipedia. She is possibly not a household name. And less likely to be one now. She dominated the local news yesterday and has kinda … Continue reading →

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Human Rights And Journalism (Amnesty International Event)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

About one hundred people attended An Féile event at St Marys University College on the Falls Road in West Belfast. Outside a small group of protesters half heartedly gave out leaflets in support of Marian Price, the dissident republica who … Continue reading →

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This Blog…One Year On

Posted on August 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Later this week I will have been keeping a eye on the Czar of Russia for a year. It will be erratic getting online for a while so tonight is a highly appropriate time to reflect on the past twelve … Continue reading →

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Wiggins On W***ers (Guest Post from Sammy McNally)

Posted on August 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Views expressed below are those of  Sammy McNally…..our Cycling Correspondent ‘Honestly they’re just f*cking w*nkers. I can’t be doing with people like that..’ So spaked the boy Bradley when a journalist asked him what he thought of those who believed … Continue reading →

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Slugger Thread on Politics.ie

Posted on August 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I am not sure how Slugger O’Toole reacts to the thread about it on its rival(?) message board “Politics.ie. On one level all publicity is good publicity. On another level it cant be a good sign when a message board becomes … Continue reading →

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Slugger: You Couldn’t Make It Up

Posted on August 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I see that the Slugger thread called “Coleraine Olympic Town” or whatever has now been changed by its author……..BBC pensioner Brian Walker to “Eton Defeated by Northern Ireland Grammar School”. Walker is taking his Grammar School obsession to even greater … Continue reading →

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Setting Up A Strip Club In A Nudist Colony

Posted on August 4, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The Slugger Digital Lunch…….how can digital journalism ever pay? was quite interesting. Some points. The much reviled “Mainstream Media” is losing money and has not yet learned how to cope with the competition of “new media” where much content is … Continue reading →

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Quentin And The Chocolate Factory

Posted on August 3, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I gave in and watched the Digital Lunch on Slugger O’Toole. I always find people getting misty-eyed about the possibilities of Online Journalism a bit hard to take. Bloggerati are right up there with “pigeon fanciers” in the single-minded obsession … Continue reading →

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Olympic Stamps

Posted on August 2, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I know very little about British postage stamps but to illustrate this post, I have uploaded a photograph of Ireland’s 2012 Olympic stamps.  It was a long standing convention with most of the World’s “respectable” post offices that living people … Continue reading →

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