Comment on An Early Christmas Present from the Sindo by maddurdu
Recently footage has emerged of the incident…
View ArticleComment on The year in guff by eamonncork
That’s really brightened my day. Fair play Doctor Five, I think RTE should cancel all their Review of the Year programmes and replace them with Guff of the Year. The perpetrators could join the...
View ArticleComment on An Early Christmas Present from the Sindo by eamonncork
He overdid it at the PD Party Conference though.
View ArticleComment on An Early Christmas Present from the Sindo by RosencrantzisDead
I have always been thankful that our own right-wingers (who might otherwise be poised for some 1930′s style putsch) were granted the charisma of Ian Duncan Smith and the smugness of George Osborne.
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by Bartley
Tom Clonan is an ex-officer, and therefore knows SFA about reloading rifles. An officer yes, but a relatively junior one if memory serves, holding a rank that I`d suspect involved some exposure to...
View ArticleComment on Nollaig Shona Daoibh – Merry Christmas by LeftAtTheCross
“every card a socialist argument” Well there are certainly a few socialist arguments here from time to time Hopefully you haven’t run out of steam yet after 7 years on-line with CLR! Merry christmas to...
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by maddurdu
‘vaguest memory from my FCA days’ Michael McDowell is Bartley!!?? Everything is illuminated…
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by Branno's ultra-left t-shirt
‘Tom Clonan is an ex-officer, and therefore knows SLA about reloading rifles. A properly-trained person would be able to rapidly fire off aimed shots from a bolt-action without trouble.’ Ah here…I’m no...
View ArticleComment on Nollaig Shona Daoibh – Merry Christmas by irishelectionliterature
Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and New Year too.
View ArticleComment on Nollaig Shona Daoibh – Merry Christmas by ivorthorne
Thanks for all the hard work. The CLR is a welcome antidote to most of the other commentary I read everyday. Happy Christmas to all!
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by RosencrantzisDead
Why is it that those who precede a post with “I am not a(n) army officer/lawyer/neurosurgeon/gynaecologist/ritual psionicist/(insert as necessary)” invariably proceed to pontificate as if they...
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by RosencrantzisDead
My understanding is the EWI has been, or is, a member of the PDF and would be in a good position to criticise on matters such as this.
View ArticleComment on And seeing as it’s all about birthdays at this time of year… by...
Yeah man let’s hear it for lemmy.
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by Bartley
@Rosencrantz <i>I am inclined to think it is a rhetorical device used to defend oneself from (correct) accusations that one is a bluffer, particularly if one has some rather salient facts...
View ArticleComment on That NRA ‘solution’… by Martin Savage
I was a member of Cromwells New Model Army and I can assure you it would have been no problem carrying out massacres with our flintlocks , though our officers hadn’t a clue how to light the fuses for...
View ArticleComment on This Week I’ll Mostly be Listening to [Christmas Special]…...
‘New York, New York’ (‘He’s gonna score a goal for us, Glen Crowe, Glen Crowe’)
View ArticleComment on After Keaveney and political rhetoric… by Killer Rabbit or Pat...
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View ArticleComment on Nollaig Shona Daoibh – Merry Christmas by John Meehan
Congratulations indeed to the publishers of the Christmas 1912 edition of Jim Larkin’s “The Irish Worker” – but some fans of this literary/political gem were a little baffled by the choice of speaker...
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Yesterday BBC Radio 4 had a half-hour documentary on the origins of Grease, focusing on the original 1971 stage show set in Chicago. One of the writers commented that the 1978 film lost a lot of the...
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What are you doing on Oliver Sos? I’m going to Dublin to see it in the New Year and am looking forward very much to that. Bart is a fascinating character, in many ways he seems to embody the...
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