REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s White House dream took a bit of a blow this week when he suffered his own Dan Quayle moment. Former Vice President Dan, you may remember, saw his political star fall and tumble into the ocean when he told a class of schoolchildren that potato is spelt potatoe.
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Just a little enquiry enquiry
MAYBE Squinter’s just thick or something. Okay, let’s rephrase that one. Squinter’s thick, he freely admits it. But it can’t be only his lack of mental acuity that has him all worked up about the latest achievement of the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET). Let’s just go over it for the benefit of anyone who hasn’t been paying attention this week…
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.
Gateways to success
There will be many straws in the wind to indicate when the benefits of peace have arrived in the working class communities of Belfast. A new stadium at Casement would certainly be one – hopefully the buffoons who regard Roger Casement as a ‘terrorist’ can hold their tongues when the opening rolls around in 2015 – and, indeed, a leisure centre easily accessible to the nationalists of North Belfast would be another.
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?”.
Things are looking up on both fronts
If Antrim followers have been delighted by the unbeaten start our footballers have made to this season’s National Football League, they were on cloud nine after the hurlers began their campaign by beating Wexford in their opening game on Sunday last at Casement Park.
