Fierce Doherty was all for burning the bondholders and of course their DNA would reject entirely the idea of ceding sovereignty to the Troika.
Let's close off this rabbit hole quick!Oh yeah, but you have to look beyond the theatrical hysterics of the Dáil.
The devil is in the detail
Devil in the detail
In fact I think it was the Labour Party that were the ones who refused the bank bailout... and then they were voted into power!
I am unaware of any instance where a FG successful TD has shouted Up the Brits in celebration. I think even the Jesuits would struggle to argue that FG are more subversive than SF/IRA.
But possibly if in power they would sing a different tune.
There you go. But in faiActually it is not all that long ago that SF were trying desperately for respectability. Remember the water charges, they were in favour before they were opposed.
No credit for supporting the bank guarantee. David McWilliams' "best initiative ever" was very popular.Now you are getting it.
It's one thing to beat the drum over what the government is doing (that's what opposition is supposed to do) , it's a different matter being in government.
And the track record, if NI is anything to go by, is pretty standard stuff.
Throw in the vote for the bank guarantee and you get a glimpse of the real politik at play.
Like I've highlighted before, Bob Storeys funeral was not an orchestration of PIRA Army Council but a gathering officially approved and sanctioned by the PSNI.
RHI was a SF minister endorsing a DUP public policy scheme.
"The times they are a-changing."
Good piece, although I wouldn't agree 100% with him. Incidentally, it was published in the Guardian a few days ago. This seems to be an increasing trend at the Irish Times - sourcing material from such as the Guardian and the New York Times - the big problem with this is that it's often the best material in the paper and its self-produced content is declining in quality.Colm Tóbín writes on Northern Ireland in the Irish Times today.
The Independent seems to be a scrap book of yesterdays newspapers peppered with local opinion pieces.This seems to be an increasing trend at the Irish Times - sourcing material from such as the Guardian and the New York Times - the big problem with this is that it's often the best material in the paper and its self-produced content is declining in quality.
Colm Tóbín writes on Northern Ireland in the Irish Times today.
At the time of re-unification the population of West Germany was 66.5 million. The East had a little over 16 million.I'm sure there were some in Germany who feared who will pay for it all?
It didn't stop them from realising their ambition of a United Germany. As I recall, the cost of German reunification was a distant second to the realisation of the German people's political aspiration.
I quite agree. So much of the news is just press releases topped and tailed by jack-of-all-trades (and pretty poorly paid) journalists. There's no value in the "quality" broadsheets doing this - it's freely available online and nobody's going to pay for it. Neither is the click bait advertising model sustainable when so many outlets are doing it, and doing it better.The Independent seems to be a scrap book of yesterdays newspapers peppered with local opinion pieces.
The Irish Times is increasingly using the same model. That's what happens when newsrooms are operating on a shoe-string because Facebook and other social media outlets have cannibalised their revenue.
Absolutely meaningless. The partition of Germany was done by the super powers, the wishes of the people were totally irrelevant.Basically it is meaningless to compare the situation in Ireland and Northern Ireland to West and East Germany.
A more relevant comparison is the partition of the Indian sub continent. Pakistan welcomed partition as Muslims were a minority in the sub continent as a whole. The Hindus were against it.
Colm Tóbín writes on Northern Ireland in the Irish Times today.
Are you arguing that without the partition of the sub continent they would have lived happily ever after? That seems to be the Wolfie stance - all our problems are the fault of partition.And what a stunning success that was. Approx. 10 million people displaced, nearly 1 million killed and continuing violence in Kashmir.
You are sounding like Greta Thunberg. Did you know she blames the Brits on climate change because they invented the industrial revolution.The Brits make as big a mess on the way out as on the way in.
That seems to be the Wolfie stance
I suppose there is no romantic appeal to uniting the sub continent, I doubt whether even Hindus yearn for the possibility.Please!! Don't try put words into my mouth.
Comparing the partition of India as a direct comparison to Ireland is also futile as the direct comparison of Germany.
While the Duke can make a reasonable reference on the religious grounds there is simply, like Germany, an innumerable amount of other variables to consider.
But there also those who want to "Up the 'Ra" to the unionist majority who live in that red head.
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