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Croker Chokers

What is it about Croker Park that makes Ireland choke, I was there when France beat them in the closing minutes during the first game, it was obvious the occassion got to them. Why? Is the Gaelic Football ground that important really or just a convenient...

Published 23 Mar 2010 9:09 AM by Alan

Filed under: Ireland Rugby, Croker Choker

Political Bias on the BBC News website

I follow the Northern Ireland News regularly since it is my way of keeping touch with events from home. I have often noticed political bias on news stories and how prestige seems to be given to certain members of the Northern Ireland political establishment...

Published 19 Mar 2010 8:32 PM by Alan

Filed under: BBC News Website, Political Bias

"Happy St Paedophile Day"

As a priest in 1975 Cardinal Sean Brady was at meetings where children signed vows of silence over complaints against paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth. Brendan Smyth spent the next 17 years committing crimes against children before being caught. After...

Published 17 Mar 2010 7:49 PM by Alan

Gordon Brown defends Omagh bomb intelligence move

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8569651.stm Tony Blair sets up a politically and financially wasteful investigation of the Bloody Sunday and yet thinks its ok to deny the Omagh Bomb relatives and people of Northern Ireland justice . It was...

Published 16 Mar 2010 7:21 PM by Alan

Filed under: Sinn Fein IRA, James Martin Pacelli McGuinness

Not good enough

"BBC News The Irish Catholic primate, Cardinal Sean Brady, has said he was at meetings when two alleged victims of Fr Brendan Smyth signed an oath of silence. The complaints of abuse by the two teenagers were investigated by Cardinal Brady in his...

Published 14 Mar 2010 12:20 PM by Alan

Filed under: Cardinal Brady, Sexual Abuse within the Roman Catholic Church

Double Jobbing on the Animal Farm

Only in Northern Ireland is it considered acceptable for politicians to be paid for 2 jobs when they fail to discharge either properly . Then again that was outcome of Labour purchasing support for the Good Friday agreement was it not. Why surely did...

Published 14 Mar 2010 10:26 AM by Alan

Filed under: Sinn Fein IRA, DUP, MLA, Double Jobbing, Animal Farm

Omagh bomb accused Colm Murphy cleared by retrial

The only man jailed in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing has been cleared following a retrial. Colm Murphy, 57, from County Louth, was jailed for 14 years in 2002, but won an appeal against his conviction in 2005. Tony Blair & Bertie Ahern: "No...

Published 24 Feb 2010 2:13 PM by Alan

Filed under: Omagh Bomb, Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern

A return to violence

A pattern of violence in Northern Ireland is returning, a bomb like the Omagh bomb with potential to cause massive loss of life was detonated in Newry today. This not only represents an escalation of the behaviour of terrorism again but also calls into...

Published 23 Feb 2010 10:42 AM by Alan

Filed under: Sinn Fein IRA, Tony Blair, terrorist attack, Omagh Bombing, Newy Bomb

Channel 4 scrapes the barrel (of a gun)

Will Channel 4 ask Gerry Adams about the help his paedophile father gave him in raising him to prominence in the Republican movement? Will it ask him about why he denied his niece justice from her paedophile father (his brother) for 15 years? Will it...

Published 20 Feb 2010 9:17 AM by Alan

Filed under: Gerry Adams, channel 4, paedophilia

Comedy statements on the economy from Sinn Fein/IRA

http://norn-iron.com/blogs/ni_politics/archive/2010/02/09/fall-in-retail-sales-a-result-of-government-inaction-on-employment-morgan.aspx Sinn Fein/IRA, who contributed to more loss of GDP in Northern Ireland than all other contributing factors put together...

Published 10 Feb 2010 10:18 AM by Alan

Filed under: Sinn Fein IRA, economy

PSNI officer remains critically ill

A police officer injured in a dissident republican bomb attack in County Antrim remains critically ill in hospital. Constable Peadar Heffron was injured when a bomb exploded under his car on the Milltown Road in Randalstown at about 0630 GMT on Friday...

Published 10 Jan 2010 2:29 PM by Alan

Filed under: Omagh Bomb, RIRA, Peader Heffron, PSNI

Peter Robinson must go

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8450544.stm Former first minister and Ulster Unionist party leader David Trimble has said Peter Robinson can "no longer deliver" as first minister. Speaking to the BBC, Lord Trimble said the DUP leader...

Published 10 Jan 2010 1:10 PM by Alan

Filed under: DUP, Peter Robinson, Lord Trimble, Iris Robinson

Mrs Robinson (I almost died from the shame)

I remember being on a school excursion to Lough Erne (I think it was the one where a guy at school took the school bus for a joy ride), anyway we were playing tapes of our favourite bands, generic American rock bands from the late 80s. All of sudden the...

Published 10 Jan 2010 11:56 AM by Alan

Filed under: DUP, Peter Robinson, Mrs Robinson

Elderly Dungannon brothers robbed by masked gang

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/8439184.stm Come on Dungannon make sure you give these guys a reminder of manners before handing them in

Published 4 Jan 2010 1:29 PM by Alan

Filed under: Dungannon

Gerry Adams abuses the law (for the greater good)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8423357.stm I have pondered over this article and the following releases of information concerning this wavering between sympathy for the victim and anger at the lack of justice. Why was the abuse by his brother...

Published 30 Dec 2009 2:31 PM by Alan

Filed under: Gerry Adams senior, Liam Adams, Gerry Adams

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