IT’S been a long and bumpy two-and-a-half-years since the Brexit referendum. Squinter’s been running his eye over the top-performing personalities as we hurtle towards the ration book, conscription, petrol riots and raffling oranges. Jacob Rees Mogg’s rocky road to Dublin Arch remainer Lord Snooty has made a fortune from providing financial services through his company, […]
Archive | January, 2019
As Brexit day of reckoning looms, meet the gammon Magnificent Seven
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Andersonstown News Eye on the Past, February 1, 1975
Andersonstown youth murdered SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Andersonstown youth, Robert McCullough, an apprentice joiner of Tullymore Gardens, was shot dead at his work after being made to kneel by two men during his lunch break. The two other men, Protestants, who were with him were unharmed. His mother, Mrs Christine McCullough, who has four other sons and a […]
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It’s good to talk (media take note)
“You are trying to achieve Irish Unity by stealth.” The woman spoke accusingly. I was sitting in Dublin. In the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs’ building. It was a meeting to discuss women, peace and security. It was like being thrust back into the early 1990s when words like Irish unity were considered “succour to […]
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Pic of the Day, Wednesday, January 30
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‘Is That Too Hot’ gives theatre goers a much needed lift out of the January gloom
LIMPING into the last few days of the longest month, myself and other theatre goers were in the same frame of mind as we headed for The MAC theatre on Friday night eager for some comic relief as we took a pew for Is That Too Hot? Set in the world of hairdryers, rollers, straighters […]
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MPs back changes to Irish border backstop
MPs at Westminster have voted to reopen Brexit talks with the EU and replace the Irish border backstop with ‘alternative arrangements’. But it remains to be seen what that vote means in reality, as the EU almost immediately reiterated its firm position that it will not be renegotiating the withdrawal agreement it struck with British […]
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