I’m lending my support to the blogger Alan Murray who is seeking legal aid to advance a claim of wrongful arrest against the police. Alan was charged with harassment of people he had named in his amazing blog about the ruination of the Holy Land area of Belfast. In all justice, he had to be [...]
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I’m Backing Bloggers
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Get me out of here!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been writing about the horrors of starting school
Waiting for War in Benghazi
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Benghazi, gadaffi, Libya on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I called my guy in Benghazi again tonight. It was harder to get through this time. He describes people who are afraid and excited at the same time, waiting to be attacked.
More News from Benghazi
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged army, Benghazi, commandos, weapons on February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Benghazi is peaceful for now and my contact describes how volunteers are tidying up and a committee has been formed to administer the city. But there is a dispute between some who think that they should return captured weapons to the commandos and trust them to provide protection and those who fear that once the [...]
Protesters believe Gadaffi has fallen.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Benghazi, gadaffi, Libya on February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A phonecall to a protester in Benghazi, recorded on Sunday 10.45 pm from Belfast. Apologies for the poor quality of the sound.
Phonecall to Benghazi
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arab, Benghazi, bloodshed, Libya, massacre, protest, slaughter on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I called a contact in Benghazi tonight and he says that over a hundred people have been killed by the army in the street today and that anti aircraft weaponry and mortars have been used against civilians. The full interview is below.
Who’s Joking?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When did you last wet yourself laughing? Well, it probably wasn’t in front of the television. Who would want to be a comedian in Northern Ireland? There are few of those that we already have who don’t, at least occasionally, ooze the sort of desperation that betrays their greater need to be affirmed by us [...]
The Case Against Cuts
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I chaired a talk by Andrew Baker at the first meeting of the Centre for Progressive Economics at Queens University on Nov 27. This is the most cogent argument I have heard against Osbornomics, which, by the end of this talk, sounds more like old fashioned Tory relish at punishing the poor.
Who Wants Catholic Schools?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And why? Some in the Catholic church understand better than others that the fight to preserve their separate schools will be tough and complicated. Here is a segment from an address by Bishop Donal McKeown to the Irish Council of Churches in Swords last week. It acknowledges that if Catholic schools are to survive they [...]
A Moral Dullard
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The primary cause championed by the current pope is opposition to ‘moral relativism’. In fact, this is what the church he heads specialises in. ‘What more could Cardinal Conway have done?’ This question was voiced by Cardinal Sean Brady when faced with the charge that the Catholic church had colluded in helping a priest suspected [...]
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This is the blog of my journalism and recordings, with some extracts from my books too. I tend to sound off on Northern Ireland Politics and Culture. Some of the work here will be recent journalism, articles that have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph or elsewhere, but there is a lot of material going back a couple of years now, so please hang around and browse. Malachi
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