Tag Archives: SDLP

Dolores Kelly

Posted on November 10, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A big thank you to Dolores Kelly MLA who took me home last night from the SDLP Conference. On way home, I asked her if she would send me a copy of her speech and she kindly let me have … Continue reading →

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Good Old Norn Iron

Posted on October 25, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Those of us who love Nostalgia will have enjoyed the cameo performance by an audience member on the Stephen Nolan-Alan Partridge Show tonight. Beneath all the good news “Our Time, Our Place” narrative, it is good to know that the … Continue reading →

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Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Newton Emerson…And SDLP

Posted on October 22, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Oscar Wilde had a way with words. So did Mark Twain. So …in his own way….does Newton Emerson. Oscar Wilde said something about us lying in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars. Newton Emerson … Continue reading →

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Alas Poor Newt

Posted on October 19, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Seemingly the latest victim of Tinternet is Newton Emerson. Something he said on Facebook apparently. SDLP reported it to the BBC where he has a regular Freelance gig….and the Beeb sacked him. There wasa time when Newton Emerson was a … Continue reading →

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Abortion Debate…1983

Posted on October 18, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

There is something curious about being a Catholic that means Catholics always seem to be on the wrong side of History. The Crusades, the Reformation, the “Glorious Revolution”, Jacobitism, the French Revolution, Democracy, Feminism. For “liberal” Catholics there is always … Continue reading →

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Dear Diary….

Posted on October 3, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

It looks like the next three or four months is going to be an extremely busy time…..there a lot of family stuff going on ……..birthdays, wedding and other anniversaries (including our own……..30 years) and will culminate in the birth of … Continue reading →

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I Think I See Whats Happening Here

Posted on September 27, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Hmmmm………Slugger O’Toole publishes a post referencing Newton Emersons reaction to THAT opinion poll. It is a particuarly fanciful analysis by Emerson (for whom I have never cared) and the comparatively new Sluggerite “Better Together”. Both “Better Together” and Emerson………Id call … Continue reading →

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Out-Greening Sinn Féin?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

If you were a core-team blogger on a letsgetalongerist anti-SDLP weblog………a weblog of record……..how exactly would you set the narrative for todays “McCausland vote”. Well of course there is no such weblog 😉   but lets say that you cannot really … Continue reading →

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“Do You Know Who I Am?”

Posted on September 24, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The Andrew Mitchell story is surely not that unique. He is hardly a household name in his own household. And if I ever appear on the excellent “Pointless Quiz” on BBC and chosse “Tory MPs Recognised By The Public”, I … Continue reading →

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Alliance And Nelson McCausland

Posted on September 18, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

At some point today, I hope to blog about the general Bastardy of the Alliance Party. But just a thought on the issue of Nelson McCausland and the motion of censure which the SDLP has tabled. Love them or hate … Continue reading →

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