Monthly Archives: June 2013

Quote Of The Week?

Posted on June 21, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Quote of the Week has to be from Ian James Parsley (still a member of the Alliance Party). Writing in his blog about NI21 (and isnt the batlle between Alliance and NI21 heating up nicely?) Mr Parsley (politician and businessman) … Continue reading →

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John F Kennedy: The Irish Legacy

Posted on June 20, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I was in Dublin last week and picked up the First Day Cover, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland. I am old enough to remember that visit. It was some forty odd … Continue reading →

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Slugger O’Toole And West Belfast

Posted on June 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Is it cos Im from West Belfast? (as Ali G might have said). Slugger O’Toole’s obvious dislike for James Kelly and Mairead Corrigan…couldnt be anything to do with them both being from West Belfast…could it? No …there would need to … Continue reading →

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Slugger O’Toole And Non-Persons

Posted on June 18, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Does Slugger O’Toole, the LetsGetAlongerist message board have a list of people who are are “undesirables”? Probably not …or I would probably be on it. Yet Slugger seems to ignore some people. What harm could James Kelly the veteran journalist … Continue reading →

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A Tale Of Two Corrigans

Posted on June 18, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Here is an odd thing.Yesterday I was looking thru the Amnesty International website when I spotted a blog by Patrick Corrigan, the Amnesty Man in Belfast and occasional contributor to letsgetalongerist website Slugger O’Toole. The blog was actually a text … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall Jailed

Posted on June 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Stuart Hall, for five decades the voice of the BBC in Manchester has been sent to prison for fifteen months for abusing young girls. Now in his eighties,the light sentence reflects his age. Yet it sends out a signal to … Continue reading →

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The Eagle Has Landed…Rolling Blog Of Sorts

Posted on June 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

So …Air Force One has landed. And the only question I want to ask is when do they all go home. G8…sick of it already. Not without its funny side. Noel Thompson did not know it was the Lord Lieutenant … Continue reading →

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Barak Obama Is No Martin Sheen

Posted on June 16, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I was as pleased as most Europeans with the election of Barak Obama in 2008. I certainly got the whole “History being made” thing. But even then I was realistic enough to know that Obama was going to be President … Continue reading →

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NI21: A Model Party?

Posted on June 15, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

With Alliance Internet warriors now attacking NI21 on Slugger O’Toole, I am indebted to “Granni Trixie” , the Boedica of Alliance warrior tribe for the information that NI21s launch was organised by a model agency headed by a model called … Continue reading →

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SDLP and Sinn Fein: How It Was

Posted on June 15, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

One of the books on the Troubles, it might even be Brian Feeney’s book on SDLP and Sinn Fein describes the early 1970s Sinn Fein manifestation as non combatants…the parents and wives of the activists in the Irish Republican Army. … Continue reading →

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