THEY’RE scandalised in England about the fact that the army wants to put surface-to-air missile units on blocks of flat near the Olympic Stadium in London in order to thwart any nasty Al-Qaeda types planning a spectacular attack on this summer’s Olympic Games.
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Dome highlights prove a low point
HOPEFULLY by Christmas the techies in Belfast City Council will have worked out a way to create a highlights package from the monthly Council meetings (now broadcast live on the web). And who would enjoy such a surprise from Santa? Only the simple-minded and those without a social life, some of you might say, but anyone who loves panto would also get a kick out of the contributions from unionist hold-outs Ruth Patterson and Brian Kingston, both DUP.
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.
No Argie Bargy with the master of the whistle
It doesn’t matter which sport is being played the quality of the game depends as much on the ability of the referee as the level of performance of the players. Having done a stint with the whistle myself I tend to observe the referee as much as the players while watching football games, soccer or Gaelic.
We’ve come a very long way since the Ardscoil
I ALWAYS allow myself a little holiday in the heart when I attend an Irish language event in the Dome of Delight — as I did on Tuesday evening. That’s partly because I was thrown out after ten minutes of my first-ever meeting in City Hall back in the eighties because I spoke Erse, and that’s partly because it’s a thrill to witness the strength and vibrancy of today’s Irish language movement.
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.
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