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Tag Archives: SDLP
The Queen’s Speech
The annual Christmas speech by Mrs Elizabeth Windsor is one of those things that is impossible to explain, mainly because I don’t actually watch it. It is a curious throw-back to the 1950s. Listen to any left wing “woke” British … Continue reading
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Tagged Commonwealth, Diana Spencer, Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth Windsor, Meaghan, nationalists, Prince Andrew, Prince Charles, Queen, Royal Family, SDLP, Sinn Féin, unionists
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SDLP Youth…47 Years Ago (My Part in Their Success)
Best wishes to SDLP Youth who are holding their annual conference today. It is a little known fact that in early 1974, Paddy Devlin drove my friend Mary and me to a SDLP meeting at the Dunowen Inn, in Dungannon. … Continue reading
“I Am Woman…Hear Me Roar”
It is a strange week. It started with International Womans Day and ended with Mothers Day (and a disgraceful police approach to women staging a vigil for a murdered woman). I suppose it typifies the feel good aspiration of respect … Continue reading
FitzjamesHorse …Back in the Saddle
I feel like one of those retired generals who has been recalled to the colours after years in retirement. It turns out that Mr Fukuyama was wrong. History has not ended. The whole world is in a state of chassis … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance Party, Border Poll, Brexit, DUP, EU, Ireland's Future, letsgetalongerism, Norn Iron, Perfidious Albion, Platform for Change, SDLP, Sinn Féin, Slugger O'Toole, TUV, UUP, Withdrawal Agreement
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SDLP at 50
Happy Birthday SDLP. I remember the day the SDLP was formed. I vividly recall the founding members and a handful of journalists outside the venue. A journo asked “will the SDLP be non sectarian?” and Paddy Devlin replied “we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Currie, Ballymurphy Massacre, Bernadette Devlin, Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, Claude Wilton, Colum Eastwood MLA, Desmond Gillespie, Dr Joe Hendron, Gerry Fitt, Ivan Cooper, John Hume, Nichola Mallon, NILP, Official IRA, Paddy Devlin, Paddy Kennedy, Paddy O'Hanlon, Paddy Wilson, Paschal O'Hare, Provisionals, Republican Clubs, Republican Labour, SDLP, Seamus Lynch, Slugger O'Toole, Vivian Simpson, Workers Party
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John Hume: The Funeral & “People Like Us”
First off, at the request of my wife, I deleted the post I wrote on Monday. She thought it contained too many personal references, including an anecdote that we have enjoyed for nearly forty years. I see her point. So … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair McDonnell, Alliance Party, Arlene Foster MLA, Austin Currie, Brid Rodgers, Colum Eastwood MLA, Dr Joe Hendron, DUP, John Hume, John Lewis, Letsgetalongerists, Mark Durkan, Martin Luther King, Michael D Higgins, Michelle O'Neill MLA, Naomi Long, Nichola Mallon, SDLP, Seamus Mallon, Sinn Féin
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The English Could Make Me Sick (Official)
If its a good day for nationalists, its a bad day for unionists. If its a good day for unionists, its a bad day for nationalists. This is the story of everything that has happened since 1998. Thus, the DUP … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Arlene Foster MLA, Colum Eastwood MLA, CoronaVirus, DUP, good friday agreement, Michelle O'Neill MLA, Paula Bradshaw, RHI, SDLP, Sinn Féin, Steve Aiken, UUP
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Bradshaw Changes Her Mind
There has been a lot of media criticism of Sinn Féin’s cavalier approach to LockDown rules. Much time and energy has gone into lambasting SF over their behaviour at a recent funeral. Some of our leading bloggers have been critical. … Continue reading
No Unionists in An Seanad
I suppose other political bloggers might want to shed a few tears that there are no unionists appointed among the eleven new Senators appointed by An Taoiseach (and Varadkar and Ryan). Is it a snub to unionists in general? Or … Continue reading
Seanad Éireann
Now that a Platform for Government has been agreed between with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party and a government will be formed with six ministries each going to FF and FG and three going to the GP……..I … Continue reading
Keeping An Eye On the Czar of Russia 