Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Over on OConall Street, Conall McDevitt notes that the gerrymandering row developing over the decision of the Environment Minister to reject the final recommendations of the Local Government Boundary Commissioner , would appear to have been partially motivated by a desire to mollify the complaints of unionist representatives in Castlereagh, angered at the anticipated loss of the...
For the Hearts of a Generation (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I appear on this week's Blogtalk (made by NvTV ), alongside Conall McDevitt and Owen Polly . We're discussing the Kelly report, remembrance in modern Ireland and Culture Minister Nelson McCausland's new blog . Have a gander Blogtalk (episode 4) from Northern Visions/NvTv on Vimeo .
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Blogtalk (episode 4) from Northern Visions/NvTv on Vimeo . Episode 4 of BlogtalkNI with Gerard McKeown , the peerless Chekov and our own Conall McDevitt ... Maybe next week, new blogger the Minister of Culture ???
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Conall McDevitt , Gerard McKeown and I discuss remembrance, the Kelly Report and Nelson McCausland's blog . Anyone who wishes to get involved, please email carl@northernvisions.org. Blogtalk (episode 4) from Northern Visions/NvTv on Vimeo .
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... In addition there are also serious, contemplative, generous posts, which do the subject justice. Conall McDevitt argues that the Republic of Ireland should have its own monument at the Western Front, in order to remember properly war dead from the south. Perhaps the nastiest piece of commentary surrounding remembrance, this year, comes from the Andersonstown News and its ‘satirical’...
ElBlogador.co (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... before the selection convention. Names that have been suggested include Balmoral Branch Chair Conall McDevitt and Bernie Kelly, a councillor in the area. The selection convention will be conducted using PR-STV.
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It looks like we are soon going to get a couple of new MLAs. The SDLP's Carmel Hanna (who is currently sitting in a Health Committee meeting) is planning to retire. A selection meeting has been arranged for next month in South Belfast with Belfast councillor Bernie Kelly and former SDLP spin doctor and well known blogger Conall McDevitt thought to be in the running. In East Londonderry,...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sweet revenge for all of the less enthusiastic readers of this blog. I am aware that I appear to be giving birth to some of the sentences which eventually lurch unsteadily into existence. To paraphrase Nabakov, “In my head I think like a genius, I write reasonably proficiently, but I talk like an idiot”. Also contributing to this episode of blogtalk, Conall McDevitt and Gary...
