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Comment on Eamon Gilmore and Sinn Féin… by WorldbyStorm

If only, at least there’d be the very slight outside chance of a semi-civilised discussion.

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Comment on Eamon Gilmore and Sinn Féin… by EamonnCork

It’s ‘risible’ not ‘risable.’ I’m surprised you can’t spell that one actually. And there’s only one e in ‘style.’ I’m not sure what ‘hence-men’ are. Maybe men who haven’t happened yet? And you’ve...

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Comment on Eamon Gilmore and Sinn Féin… by Ed

In its own way, the madness is quite revealing though … the idea that Adams had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a non-violent strategy that he had been preparing the ground for since at least...

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Comment on Eamon Gilmore and Sinn Féin… by EamonnCork

Harris would have more manners. And he wouldn’t be drunk when he posted.

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by...

Anyone going to the Olympia?

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Comment on Interview with Liadh Ní Riada… by EamonnCork

Plus 1 to Bob on Liadh Ni Riada’s comments re the Liam Adams abuse case. That’s bringing blind political loyalty to a new extreme. If she had nothing better than that to say about it she would have...

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by...

In fairness, it’s not that surprising if journalists get a bit confused when there are so many people from Belfast called “Gerry” who say they were only ever in the Fianna.

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Comment on Interview with Liadh Ní Riada… by dmfod

Is it not the case Adams could still technically be done for being in the IRA if he admitted it down here?

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Comment on Interview with Liadh Ní Riada… by shea

yes, seamus kearney got done today for the shooting of an ruc man in 87. IRA was a secret ogranisation so on the one hand by their rules your not meant to say anything and its also an illegal...

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by Ed

Is it a cross between a huckster and a hipster perhaps? Riding fixies around and sporting well-tended facial hair as they plunder the Irish state.

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 20th of November, 2013 by Ed

Christ almighty, the first of several comments pointing out what a disgrace that wording was came 14 hours ago and they still haven’t changed it … I wouldn’t mind but there was a film about it and all,...

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Comment on A question on Irish Trade Unions and internationalism by låg...

trackback [ ... ] Wow , häftigt blog layout ! Hur long du varit blogging ? För [ ... ]

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Comment on The CLR Political Quiz ……….. Number 58 by dilettante

1. It was FitzGeralds time. 1980? 2. Was the SEA ever anything more than Eamon McCann? 5. If you put the question like that then probably not 6. Justice? 9. There was an “Irish Democratic Youth...

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Comment on Interview with Liadh Ní Riada… by dmfod

Yeah I thought so. It annoys me the way everyone disingenuously ignores that elephant in the room. It was the same with Martin McGuinness during the Presidential election, all this faux bafflement that...

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Comment on Social mobility redux… by dmfod

What got me was the totally unquestioned assumption that ‘clever’, more qualified people should be better off and have a higher social status and that people who do care work or gardening are of course...

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th of November, 2013 by Joe

Sounds good Bob. Must try to catch an episode.

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th of November, 2013 by...

hmmmm http://www.labour.ie/press/2013/11/30/recovery-must-come-from-the-middle-out-not-the-top/

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th of November, 2013 by...

Isn’t it being held in INEC? That’s certainly not a small venue – unless they’ve partitioned it. Again, most of the delegates are probably in the hotel bars or eateries at any given time. They’ll be...

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Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th of November, 2013 by...

I wrote about today’s IT/IPSOS MRBI ‘Perceptions’ poll: http://hardcorefornerds.tumblr.com/post/68559805193/begging-the-question-of-political-perceptions The (mis)leading questions in the poll were bad...

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