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THE WEEK THAT WAS….
‘Anything you can do we can do better’ – forget Isner and Mahut’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6 and 70-68 marathon at Wimbledon. That was only 11 hours and five minutes of play spread over three days. This week the Assembly managed to sit for 19 hours and three minutes in just two [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
What a stroke of bad fortune that was. You wait all those years to finally decide that the reform of Local Govt. won’t be happening any time soon, and just as you’re about to explain to the electorate why £9m has drifted off into the ether, along comes the Saville report into [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
Business in the House was never going to make for prime time viewing, but in recent months what little did pass for entertainment seems to have dried up. The atmosphere is as flat as Rio Ferdinand’s ‘welcome’ home party from the World Cup and as enticing as free membership of the Dublin [...]
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“Thorn in my side, you know that’s all you ever were. A bundle of lies – you know that’s all that it was worth. I should have known better, but I trusted you at first. I should have known better, but I got what I deserved….”
The recent murder of Bobby Moffett on [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
Life is full of unintended consequences. When Coalition forces invaded Iraq they didn’t expect to unleash a sectarian civil war which would claim more casualties than the original invasion.
When the Tory right drove John Major’s Government into oblivion with the comforting thought that five years out of power would help them regroup, [...]
Belfast Harbour has suggested that an upturn in trade through the Port during the first quarter of 2010 may indicate that the Northern Ireland economy is over the worst of the economic downturn. The upbeat assessment was made as the Harbour Authority published its 2009 Annual Report which reflected an increase in Turnover by £0.4m [...]
INCA, the UK-wide body for the promotion of Next Generation Broadband infrastructure, willbe hosting its first ever Northern Ireland Roadshow in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter on June 17th. The group has warned that broadband provision in the UK already lags behind its competitors with many countries making faster progress towards Next Generation services.
The event, which is aimed [...]
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“The years spent in isolation have not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong. He’s had no context. He’s been completely without guidance. It seems clear that his awareness of what we call reality is radically underdeveloped.”
So thought a psychologist of the leading character in Tim Burton’s 1990 [...]
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Politics isn’t what it used to be. The sight of Messrs Paisley and McGuinness chuckling all the way to the Division Lobbies was unsettling enough, but the new Nick & Dave show now airing on Channel No.10 is possibly even more bizarre. If the ‘season launch’ of this Rom Com is anything [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
2,721 votes cast out of a total of 673,871 doesn’t seem much. That’s because it’s not. In fact, it’s a paltry 0.4%, but in business and in politics, it’s victory in the margins which can make all the difference.
1,534 votes in East Belfast were all that stood in the way of an [...]
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