Tag Archives: west belfast

Brave Women…Cowardly Men

Posted on April 30, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

All of us who are committed to Democracy will be outraged at the attack on Hannah Kenny of People Before Profit in East Belfast last night. She was subject to sexist and sectarian abuse. It follows on from the attack … Continue reading →

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Assembly Election 2022: West Belfast

Posted on April 21, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

West Belfast is a constituency comprising Falls Road, Andersonstown, Ballymurphy, Glen Road. It is mostly nationalist with small unionist areas in the Shankill area and a smaller enclave at Blacks Road. I lived in the constituency from my birth in … Continue reading →

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SDLP : New Faces: Paul Doherty (West Belfast)

Posted on January 28, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

I am of course a man from West Belfast. I still feel like that even though I only lived there from 1952 to 1979. Of course I usually worked in Belfast but oddly I have never felt totally at ease … Continue reading →

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JeffreyMandering

Posted on January 15, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

Dual Mandate or Double Jobbing? They mean the same thing but one is much more perjorative than the other. This means a person being a member of two legislative Assemblies at the same time…ie Westminster Parliament and the regional Assemblies … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Telephone Calls

Posted on June 27, 2020 by fitzjameshorse

Phone Call #1 It was in the mid 1970s. I had been at an evening class in the College of Business Studies in Brunswick Street.  Following the other students leaving the building and walking along Queen Street to Castle Street … Continue reading →

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Sinn Féin: No Man (Or Woman) Left Behind

Posted on June 2, 2019 by fitzjameshorse

I think it was Brian Feeney who described (early 1970s) Sinn Féin as the non combatant fathers, mothers, wives etc of IRA members. Sinn Féin likes to spread the myth that they are the political descendents of the Sinn Féin … Continue reading →

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Assembly Electon 2017: West Belfast

Posted on March 1, 2017 by fitzjameshorse

The key difference between Assembly 2016 and Assembly 2017 is that only five MLAs will be elected from each constituncy. For at least eighteen MLAs and their staff, this election has come four years too early. The percentage of votes … Continue reading →

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The Fall Of West Belfast

Posted on December 27, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

There was a time when Norn Iron was blatantly sectarian. A time some fifty years ago, when there was no political correctness. It was not unusual to return to work  after lunch and find that Mrs Jones had left a … Continue reading →

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Profile: West Belfast

Posted on May 3, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

Candidates: Sinn Féin: Jennifer McCann. Fra McCann. Rosie McCorley. Pat Sheehan. Alex Maskey. SDLP: Alex Attwood. People Before Profit: Gerry Carroll. DUP: Frank McCoubrey. UUP: Gareth Martin. Alliance: Jemima Higgins. Green:Ellen Murray. Workers Party: Conor Campbell. All the outgoing MLAs … Continue reading →

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Sinn Féin: “Big Lads In The Big Picture”

Posted on April 17, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

Sometimes…you have to laugh. In the summer of 1992 or 1993, my family and I were driving past a hotel when we saw a sign “Star Trek Convention” and we thought it would be a good idea…the first and last … Continue reading →

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