Author Archives: fitzjameshorse

Champions!

Posted on April 22, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Manchester United…Champions for the TWENTIETH Time. And Celtic yesterday. Happy Days.

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Suarez Bites Yer Elbow

Posted on April 22, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

As a Manchester United fan, I am supposed to have a default for Liverpool FC. But I dont. As I have said before at the time of the Munich Air Crash, only two clubs offered help to Old Trafford. Nottingham … Continue reading →

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Berrnie Ecclestone: Human Rights Activist

Posted on April 20, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I used to like Formula One Racing. The 1960s…you had to be there. Sunday afternoon and the great European Grand Prixs were broadcast live via Eurovision. It was grainy black and white of course and Ramond Baxter was the commentator. … Continue reading →

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SDLP: The Next Generation

Posted on April 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

SDLP Youth hold their annual Conference in Derry next weekend. The Youth Group are scarily good…and eight of them made it on to the full Party Executive in November last year. Back in 1973/74 I tried to interest the SDLP … Continue reading →

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How The Irish Saved….Belfast

Posted on April 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Ian Parsley, the politician, businessman and linguist who was previously a member of the Alliance Party and the UCNUCFCPF and is now back with Alliance…all since 2009….makes a fair point when he blogs that loyalists and republicans get more out … Continue reading →

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John Smyth Junior

Posted on April 19, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

John Smyth junior sounds like an interesting person. Jailed yesterday for petrol bombing a house occupied by some Polish people. In other words he is either a racist or sectarian scumbag. But unusually he was a DUP candidate at the … Continue reading →

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“Accordin’ To My Da”

Posted on April 18, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

 I have never considered Belfast a city of 300,000 or whatever. Rather there is a neutral city centre and the River Lagan divides East from West. Arterial routes from the City Centre go north, east, south and west…..effectively  making four … Continue reading →

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SDLP Communications Manager…Job Opportunity?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

The SDLP ar advertising for a Communications Manager to head up their Media Team. I know what you are all thinking. Why have they not simply approached…me. Well obviously I am more than capable and would do it or half … Continue reading →

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My Big Fat Tory Funeral

Posted on April 17, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I have taken to Muy bed with my iPad. The scourge of retirement is that TV is pretty awful. Right now, all channels seem to rest showing a new Reality show called “My Big Fat Tory Funeral”. Big budget for … Continue reading →

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LetsGetAlongerism Interupted

Posted on April 16, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

We live in a decade which Conflict Resolutionists and LetsGetAlongerists aided and abetted by Historians have mapped out for us. It is The Decade of Centenaries, a series of events to show how much nationalists and unionists have in common … Continue reading →

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