Do you miss David Trimble? Me neither. I interviewed him once a long time ago. As I waited, he moved around the UUP headquarters in that nervy way he had, softly whistling (no, not The Sash’, some classical piece, perhaps an aria from an opera, but definitely nothing common).
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The nuts and bolts of unity or unionism
Do you miss David Trimble? Me neither. I interviewed him once a long time ago.
After much trailing, the Orange gets its coat
Monks in medieval times used to keep a skull sitting on their desk so they’d have a daily reminder of their own mortality. The Orange Order don’t have any official equivalent, as far as I know, which is a pity.
Some thoughts about signing of the Ulster Covenant
Last weekend QPR manager Mark Hughes was going a bit ballistic about a goal he says his team scored but the ref ruled they hadn’t.
As Micheál spoke the people were voting with their feet
Sometimes people prod my chest and say, “How is it you’re always on about southern politics? Why don’t you write about what’s going on up here instead?” Well, mainly because I don’t want to be an idiot, given that the word ‘idiot’ come from ‘idios’, meaning one’s own self, in a narrow, parochial sense. I believe that when I write about southern politics, I’m writing about what’s happening in another part of my country.
Job queues stretch as FF address the faithful
Sometimes people prod my chest and say “How is it you’re always on about southern politics? Why don’t you write about what’s going on up here instead?”.
