Comments on: Hanson's Further Lies

By: Padraig Mac Suibne

Padraig Mac Suibne — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:23:13 +0000

Beano,

The past shapes the future. Without the past, there cannot be any future…

Go figure, as the Americans say!

By: Padraig Mac Suibne

Padraig Mac Suibne — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:20:35 +0000

The only people to blame in all this are successive British Governments. When will Republicans and Loyalists stop blaming each other and realise the root cause of all the problems in Ireland, North and South, has been England and Westminster?

By: Hanson

Hanson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:36:51 +0000

I’m for total integration with the UK. I don’t think anyone in NI would shed any tears if all 108 MLAs were given their P45s. They sat around doing nothing for 5 years. All politicians are a waste of space and (especially in NI) a scandalous waste of money.

By: Levee

Levee — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:35:25 +0000

Crap, my ignorance of political structures has been exposed! What’s a privy counsellor?

Hanson, thanks for visiting. I know you take an anti-agreement stance, but I wonder how else you propose to resolve the long-standing (and yawn-inducing) Northern Ireland situation?

By: beano

beano — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:15:13 +0000

LOL @ El Mat – good spot.

By: Hanson

Hanson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:32:05 +0000

I have just seen this post.

Thanks for your kind comments.

I stand by my comments about Sir Reg. No one, republican or unionist, should be allowed to hold political office if they are guilty of murder.

By: El Matador

El Matador — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:46:37 +0000

Bobby Sands was not a Privy Counsellor!

By: Levee

Levee — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:52:38 +0000

@Aileen: You cannot be serious!!! To paraphrase the Rt Hon Robert Sands MP: “Every person, Republican or otherwise has their part to play”.

Politicians and preachers in Northern Ireland are highly influential people. Their media presence has inflamed tensions in the past, driven hatred and yes – driven people to kill other human beings.

I view this almost completely the opposite to you – I think the organ grinders are much more dangerous the the monkeys!

@beano: I was sort of thinking your page could be like a PopURLS for Northern Irish blogs. I like Northern Irish Blogs, but I suppose I still prefer to view information by site….

By: beano

beano — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:18:46 +0000

Sorry for going OT, but…

“You should really extend the number of feed on there if you can. Big Ulsterman, Tangled Web, Balrog, etc. Levee goes off topic so much I couldn’t recommend myself!”

The feeds are parsed using LastRSS a PHP class. 3 seemed like the perfect number because it fits well across the screen on a 1024×768 monitor and those three were chosen because: The BBC gives it some “quality” news (ahem), NorthernIrishBlogs aggregates all the ones you mentioned and then some, and of course EverythingUlster for shamless self-promotion.

Ideally I probably would have let users pick their own feeds, but I don’t think enough people would use it to warrant it – and then if I did that it wouldn’t really be any different to google or MyYahoo, would it?

By: aileen

aileen — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:13:20 +0000

It is still the murder that matters. Give me any non muderous bigot over a non bigoted murderer any day of the week.

Nothing gave sanction to the actions of terrorist!! It is their willingness to commit the actions that is to blame.

Feeling that the establishment is not listening is a poor excuse for murder. I would have a better excuse myself, but it would still not excuse it.

I wonder how the political landscape would look if murderer had been taken out of the equation.