I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.
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Who calls the shots in Europe?
I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.
Mild manners don’t hide bigotry or revisionism
There’s something about Church of Ireland people that I tend to like. The late Canon Eric Elliot, for example, whom I knew reasonably well, was as modest and Christian a man as you could encounter.
Pulpit thumpers replaced by op-ed writers
Well, pulpit-thumping priests may be less usual these days but there’s no shortage of finger-pointing columnists and editorial writers.
No surprise that Heath is a British hero
John Kelly is angry. His brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry and he’s now heard that a commemorative stone is to be erected in Westminster Abbey to the late Ted Heath, prime minister at the time.
Changing tunes on the Easter Rising
When the seemingly-defeated men of 1916 were led away, we’re told, the public mood against them was strong.
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