I’VE never seen anything like it. On Facebook, on Twitter, there was instantaneous reaction. Comment after comment, tweet after tweet. You’d think the death of someone whose political career ended decades ago would have been greeted with a shrug. Not so Maggie Thatcher. Comment after comment, tweet after tweet expressing pleasure, nay delight, at the […]
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Mad about history
AMONG the tens of thousands of words spoken during interviews for my book ‘Whose Past Is It Anyway?’, those of Ian Paisley Jr are among the most memorable – particularly his thoughts on the Easter Rising. “I’m an avid student of history, so I’ve absolutely no difficulty in exploring the Easter Rising further. As I […]
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Lessons learnt
If a cat sits on a hot stove, it tends to avoid hot stoves after that. In fact, it avoids all stoves, hot
Not standing up for the Ulster men
What a weekend of, um, foreign games we had last Saturday, eh? There was Blackpool vs West Ham
Lock us up and swallow the key!
I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.
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Who calls the shots in Europe?
I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.
