Inquiry into Residential and Secure Accommodation for Children in Northern Ireland: Minutes of Evidence v. 2 (Northern Ireland Assembly Reports)
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Have blogged over on O’Conall Street about the latest local Facebook hate group. This one has been created by what looks like a very cross community group of apparently middle class students from Belfast and targets the Romanian community.
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BBC Newsline looks at human cost of collisions
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Forty-two Ryanair passengers are left stranded after a departure gate 'mix-up' made them miss a flight from Liverpool to Belfast.
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More flooding is expected in County Fermanagh as heavy rain means water levels in Lough Erne continue to rise.
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Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen is to visit areas in the Republic hit by last weeks floods.
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By public demand Gordon Brown's early efforts to keep the inquiry into the Iraq war secret were defeated by the chairman himself Sir John Chilcott , former father confessor to the intelligence community and NIO chief. In that role, he had probably the most extensive knowledge of anyone of MI5's role in the province and throughout the UK. I can feel hackles rising already at the sight of his pedigree...
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Pete has covered the latest terrorist attacks below. Thankfully they seem to have been completely unsuccessful. However, the attempt to murder a police officer who lived in Garrison was particularly sinister. At the start of the troubles the IRA often targeted police officers living in nationalist areas and Garrison is a very predominantly nationalist village. In addition the IRA were often reported...
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It wasn't a book I found particularly gripping or enlightening but I have just finished Tim Collins: Rules of Engagement. I thought it was mainly jingoistic, self-congratulatory and unsurprisingly celebratory of militarism. However, the short section on Ireland's neutrality he raised while accepting an honorary patronage of Trinity College Philosophical Society was a little challenging, so here it...
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BBC NI gets up close with Man Utd's rising star
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I have no idea if this will be of any use, interest or work but I'll give it a go anyhow. Slugger has its awards in Belfast on Tuesday. It's a school night and some from outlying areas could be denied the opportunity to relax and socialise with alcohol due to driving or face an expensive taxi ride. There should be around 150 people there and many won't know each other. So lets sort a car/taxi share...
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Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson certainly inherited father Nigel's splendid disdain for group think over world scale matters like climate change and spending out of a recession. I marvel how exquisitely he gets right up the noses of Irish and British alike in a few phrases, over that notorious qualifier. In the case of Thierry Henry's handling of the ball, which led to the French scoring a decisive...
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What is it about politicians in Northern Ireland that they will not seriously confront racism, bigotry and sectarianism? How can any politician who promotes the notion of ‘a sectarian head count’ in either community convince thinking people that he or she is serious about standing up to sectarianism? At the heart of the Conservative party’s explanation for aligning with the Ulster...
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Over at Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram describes some examples of the flora and fauna commonly found in comment zones. The kaboodle here is no different.
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The media both print and on line recently have been full of discussion of one of the most famous of all bloggers, an even bigger star than our own sainted leader Mick: Belle du Jour. She has been the author of a blog about herself, the most popular part of which concerned her time as a high class prostitute in London. Her blog and books have earned her a great deal of money and genuine literary acclaim;...
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Police are investigating an allegation of child abuse made against a priest who works in Ballymena.
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