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So after weeks of cat calling and pointing fingers our political parties have tripped quietly back up to the big house on the hill where they all agreed to take the ‘Queen’s shilling’ and serve as Ministers for another four years. If fairness, ours are a humble lot and the prospect of a Ministerial Skoda [...]
Children were once invited to write a letter asking God a question. One child wrote; ‘Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones why don’t you just keep the ones you got now?’ The ‘Gods’ in charge of the recent NI Assembly elections appear to have been happy to keep most of [...]
By this time next week the fat lady will have sung and whose tune she plays to is entirely up to you. We can all be cynical about politicians and God knows they give us enough cause but it’s like family we can’t live with them and we can’t live without them. In fairness to [...]
Excited yet? Have the elections set your blood racing? Have you been down to the bookies to get odds on the next First Minister? For the record at Paddy Power the odds as to who will be the next First Minister are Peter Robinson 1/12, Martin McGuinness 11/2 while Margaret Ritchie and Tom Elliott is [...]
Canvassers came to my home the other night and to be honest I could not be bothered to open the door. Campaign literature of all shapes and hues is building up in the letterbox outside the house. There was even one from a disorientated candidate who left his literature in the wrong constituency. Don’t get [...]
Elections bring out the worst in politicians and now armed with Facebook and Twitter there’s no real escaping them. Yet there is no buzz about these elections and that’s probably because everyone knows that very little is likely to change. Post the election the DUP and Sinn Fein are still going to be top dogs [...]
I have just returned from the wake of an elderly relative. Hard as her loss was for her family, it followed the natural ebb and flow of a long life. She got married, had a family, worked, was widowed and lived to see her grandchildren grow up. The fact that she was buried on Mother’s [...]
Do you want to work somewhere fast paced and fun where no two days are the same? Are you up to the challenge of dealing with some of the UK and Ireland’s best companies? Are you a student looking for a year’s work placement based in Belfast, with horizons stretching from London to Saudi Arabia [...]
Do you really wake up in the morning and worry about who will be First Minister of Northern Ireland? I suspect not. Unlike politicians most of the public either understand that the Office of First and Deputy First Minister is a joint office or they could not care less. Certainly, since taking office together the [...]
In a darkened world with tsunamis, nuclear meltdown and international civil unrest there are still some lighter moments, which could even make Princess Anne , smile. Firstly, our new Taoiseach is having gender issues with several news agencies struggling with the masculinity of his name. Our Enda is a Gaelic name which means birdlike. The [...]
Watching the Japanese tsunami unfold on live TV was earth shattering. Mother nature unleashed her nasty side and swept away the manmade structures within minutes. Towns, villages, even ships were caught up in a tidal wave of devastation. The whole event makes one reflect on the tenuous grip we have on life. For all the [...]
The expected fall of the clown but sinister dictator, Muammar Gaddafi is not going well. The duplicity of Western Governments towards this Northern African despot is mind-blowing. One minute they are indulging every eccentric whim of this political windbag including clearing public parks in their capital cities so that he can erect Bedouin style tents [...]
Well surprise, surprise, Ireland is to have a new Taoiseach; Gerry Adams is a poll topper in Louth; Labour’s, Eamon Gilmore may have to settle for being Enda’s wingman; the breadth of successful independents elected look like the cast of Fraggle Rock and the once mighty monolithic catch all of Fianna Fail has caught next [...]
Poor old Owen Paterson; he can’t do right for doing wrong. When he was Shadow Secretary of State he promised to take up the cudgel for lower corporation tax if he got into office as Secretary of State. Fair play, he did just that only to find some of the local players had gone cold [...]
The architecture of the Good Friday and St Andrews Agreements has achieved political co-habitation but little else. Soon we will have to use a better measurement gauge for judging political effectiveness. The current system fails at the most basic levels required for a functioning government, namely responsibility and accountability. The fact that not a single [...]
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