A trip to Dublin the day before the State visit of Her Majesty The Queen takes some interesting turns around the city. Continue reading One Royalist, three Americans, as Dublin prepares to welcome Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen’s visit to Dublin later this year is going to be an interesting one for reporters as the history will make their job challenging. The BBC slips up in the first round of this. Continue reading Queen’s visit to Ireland going to be challenging
If you are out and about in the navigational waters around the island of Ireland in fog from today onwards, do not hope to hear the comforting sound of a fog horn from any of the lighthouses. That is right, all the fog horns have been switched off. The Commissioners of Irish Lights having carried out a review have decided that one cannot navigate with a fog signal For those who don’t know what it sounds like – listen here. Related Articles When Irish Lights Aren’t Smiling (iaindale.blogspot.com) Continue reading Commissioners of Irish Lights switch off some Aids to Navigation
For all that we have been reading about the vote in the House of Commons last night which has produced many column inches in the print media, and many many images and verbal pictures on websites around the world, we must remember that it is not just in the United Kingdom that politicians say one thing and do another. Continue reading “In Éirinn mar atá i Londain”
Just after I watched the CNN interview with Bishop Andrew Burnham who is leaving the department of state called the ‘Church of England’ to be received into full communion with the Holy See, I noticed an advertisement for The Portal Magazine. I thought that I should subscribe to it. Sadly, those who have put the ordering form together, have made it difficult for those of us who recognise the country in which I live as Northern Ireland, and not Ireland. Indeed the choice given for country was: England Wales Scotland Ireland Not in the UK Now despite the bail-out by … Continue reading The Portal Magazine – ignoring the reality
After seeing and sharing a post about the NUS President closing registrations for a Black students’ event in London, I looked further at what Student Broad Left are about. I found the following sentence. Justice for Ireland: for equality, civil rights and a just peace. For the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Support for Irish self-determination and to bring an end to Britain’s role in that country. I don’t know which Good Friday Agreement they were reading – but it does not call for an end to Britain’s role in Ireland. It agrees that both HM Government in … Continue reading Student Broad Left tries to interfere and gets it so wrong
Good to see that the all-Ireland political entity known as Sinn Féin is using joined up campaigning. On one side of the border that they now recognise (cf Belfast Agreement) people are being encouraged to join with Gerry Adams and protest the cuts – see poster… Whilst in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin is saying that they want to make savings cuts worth £1billion and make £800 million in revenue. According to Eamonn Mallie, the deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness said (on tackling the economy) Let us have a bit of blue sky thinking – thinking outside the box. Mr Mallie … Continue reading stop the cuts, make some cuts… make up your mind Sinn Féin
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