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Last week I celebrated another birthday. My age and girth seem to be in competition. Funny though in my mind’s eye they stabilised in my thirties. In everyone else’s – they are in a race. I can still remember attempting my first shave courtesy of my Dad’s Wilkinson’s Sword Double Edge Safety razor. ‘Safety Razor’ [...]
If you are going to riot in Belfast you really should think again. Best to try one of the London boroughs, it’s much safer and vastly more profitable. The violence in England last week could be described as truly mindless. It was carried out by opportunistic thugs. The Met was caught completely off guard and [...]
I don’t feel unduly sympathetic toward Senator David Norris over his failed Presidential bid. The man showed an appalling lack of judgement and even in his theatrical exit it was clear that he still did not really get what had ‘done’ for him. One thing for sure, Senator Norris, who had enjoyed an Indian summer [...]
‘Off with her head’ screamed the Queen of Hearts and so it seems that a vengeful SDLP may also look for the head of their Leader, Margaret Ritchie, in retribution for recent election results. Finally the media took the bait cast from various ‘informed’ tweets that Patsy McGlone might challenge the beleaguered lady for her [...]
Paisley said it first; now it’s Enda Kenny. ‘Pope out’ – ‘No Rome Rule’. For colour Enda added references to neither a crozier nor collar being protection from the laws in a Republic. On both, the Taoiseach is correct. The Republic by its nature should as in the words of the 1916 Proclamation equally guarantee [...]
Despite the best efforts of my good friend, Lord Laird, Orange Fest just does not do it for me. He should not be too upset by that declaration as in the right circumstances I could give a fair rendition of both ‘The Sash’ and ‘The Auld Orange Flute’. I can also admit to wryly liking [...]
Margaret Ritchie secured a Commons Adjournment debate last week on the little known but costly issue of double levying small businesses for playing music in public. This matter mainly affects hairdressers, shopkeepers, and garage owners. The public are most likely oblivious to that fact that the music they are listening while under the hairdryer or [...]
It’s strange but Wimbledon brings out my most nationalistic tendencies, as I have to admit to taking great pleasure from the predictable annual defeat of British tennis players. For weeks prior to the strawberries and cream festival we are bombarded with the outlandish claims that this year Murray or prior to him Henman would lift [...]
Observant Catholics will know that July 1st 2011 is the Feast of the Sacred Heart. History buffs will also know that July 1st 1690 is the day that Orange Billy beat the backside of Papish James at the Battle of the Boyne. Some 86 years later in 1776, having thrown off the shackles of Imperialism, [...]
The media seems to be getting hot and bothered over the results of the latest Northern Ireland Life and Times survey. Naturally Sinn Fein and the DUP who just recently received an over whelming mandate to provide sound leadership in the North set to in a skirmish by claiming that either the results were bogus [...]
The untimely death of Brian Lenihan should give us all pause to reflect. An articulate and urbane politician, Brian was only 52 leaving behind a wife, young children, his siblings and his mother. Parents whose children pre-decease them struggle to cope with a loss, which goes against the supposed natural order of life. Brian, like [...]
Hugh Gaitskell, a former Labour Leader, once forecast that ‘all terrorists at the invitation of the Government, end up with drinks at the Dorchester’. One bets he never envisaged that some murderers would end up at the invitation of terrorists with jobs in the government? The heart rendering intervention of Ann Travers over the controversial [...]
In the mid eighteenth century it was not uncommon for children as young as five to be working as chimney sweeps. A generation before then children from working and lower middle classes could have found themselves in compulsory indebentured apprenticeships, some benign, most not. For the first thirty years of the twentieth century children as [...]
It’s going to be difficult but I am not going to use the ‘h’ word about the events of the past week. First and foremost because a visit by the British Head of State to the Republic of Ireland was embarrassingly long overdue. The physical ties of family, language, trade and tourism have always existed. [...]
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