Yearly Archives: 2012

The Beautiful Game…The Second Half

Posted on November 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Several great games of football this week (including Reading 5 Arsenal 7 and Chelsea 5 Manchester United 4) and yet it has been a bad week for Football. The Clattenburg Affair is not going to go away. Chelsea FC have made … Continue reading →

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Fact And Fiction: Child Abuse

Posted on November 5, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Do you watch the BBC Series “New Tricks” which ended its run last week? One of those “Cold Case” type police procedurals where retired veteran detectives solve old cases. Oddly last week’s programme centred on a Scottish “childrens home” where … Continue reading →

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Rich Hall And The American South

Posted on November 4, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

This is an article which I wrote for an American website in July 2010. Rich Hall is an American comedian who resides in Britain. I dont really like Rich Hall. I need to “like” comedians and Hall is too caustic. … Continue reading →

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Sexism, Racism And The TV Western.

Posted on November 2, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I am pretty sure that the first TV Western I ever saw……my granny’s house in around 1958 was “Boots And Saddles”, a little remembered show about the Fifth Cavalry fighting Apaches in Arizona. Of course in 1959, when we got … Continue reading →

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Murder

Posted on November 1, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Part of “blogging” is thinking up a good, catchy headline. After all blogging is not a serious business. I have a bad cold today. Mrs FitzjamesHorse went off to work today at about 7.30am. I waved her off as usual……at … Continue reading →

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President Visits Belfast

Posted on October 30, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

An t-Uachtarán na h-Éireann will be visiting Belfast today. He will be speaking at the annual meeting of the Citizen Advice people before going on to visit Clonard Monastery in West Belfast. I should point out that Mrs FJH will … Continue reading →

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The Beautiful Game?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Even for a Manchester United fan….like myself….Sunday’s 3-2 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge was a depressing affair. Football has become toxic. What happens during the course of the ninety minutes seems almost a distraction to what happens before and … Continue reading →

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“Feck It!…Enjoy It!”

Posted on October 30, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A very interesting documentary on Father Brian D’Arcy tonight. Father Brian is a 67 year old priest……attached to the Passionist Order in County Fermanagh. Thru appearances on TV, his radio show and his weekly column in “The Sunday World” (a … Continue reading →

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If You Can Remember The 1960s…..

Posted on October 29, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

As they say…….if you can remember the 1960s, you were not really there. It seems to me that my earliest memories of pop culture were around 1960 in Coalisland, County Tyrone. My older cousin/Godmother Bernadette, would listen to “Housewive’s Choice” … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back Newt!

Posted on October 28, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I see Brian Walker the unionist (I hesitate to say “liberal unionist”) commentator on Slugger O’Toole has drawn attention to an article by potty-mouthed “liberal unionist” journalist Newton Emerson in one of todays papers. Seemingly Newt welcomes the collapse of … Continue reading →

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