Here’s a gem you might have missed as a comment on the Contact page: Hi Malachi, as a journalist from a nationalist background it gives me hope that somebody like yourself can be well known. I think to myself, if a dense little twat like Malachi who acts like a monkey to the unionist gallery [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Analyse That!
Posted in Culture and Society on February 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Irish Graffiti
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on February 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here is some graffiti I spotted in the last couple of days. Actually, the first one has been on a wall on the main Omagh Road out of Strabane for months. The bit I have deleted shows a car registration number, presumably an invitation to attack that car. You’d think the police would have moved [...]
Crisis Fatigue
Posted in Politics, Northern Ireland on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A sampling of voices on a Belfast city street suggests that people have very little interest in the political regime that serves them – crisis fatigue, perhaps.
Reading at The Wild Geese
Posted in Culture and Society on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I read a couple of pieces from Under His Roof, my book about my father, at The Wild Geese Literary Festival in Strangford on Feb 6. It seemed to go down well. You can hear a recording here:
Oh Mo!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mo Mowlam surprised us all before she shocked us. She was a heartening break from the sequence of plummy male Secretaries of State whose job had been to speak implausibly for the people of ‘Nawthen Arlan’ and their desire for peace. It is a pattern we have now returned to, despite the sense then that [...]
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