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Monthly Archives: October 2005
That Alec Reid Thing
That storm the other week about Fr. Alec Reid’s ‘Nazi’ comments – has it died down yet? I didn’t comment on it at the time for two reasons: I didn’t know how I felt about the outburst, and I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland: Politics
19 Comments
Media Manipulation
In Northen Ireland, how you tell the story is critical. There’s always someone out there to offend, always some spin that can corrupt the story to suit the political advantage of whoever releases the piece. But even I was surprised … Continue reading
Posted in News & Media
6 Comments
You Give Me Road Rage!
Driving at a snail’s pace? It’s probably just as dangerous to drive UNDER the speed limit, as it is to drive too fast! Levee is not happy about the number of abysmally slow drivers on the Northern Irish back roads! Continue reading
Posted in Observations
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Crisis
How many crises does it take to make up a peace process? The truthful answer is “I lost count at 3,442″. You would switch on the news on any given evening, and you could be sure that as you munched … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Ireland: Politics
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The New Terrorism Bill
The Home Office has recently suggested that prisoners be released early in order to alleviate record prison overcrowding. What this means is that many prisoners could be released under curfew and with an electronic tag, as well as the release … Continue reading
Posted in News & Media
3 Comments
Service Notice: Switching To Feedburner
From today, The Levee Breaks’ RSS service is available via feedburner. The new feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheLeveeBreaks. If you’re using the RSS feed, I suggest you update your software to the address above. What Are You Talking About, Levee? RSS … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Tell It Like It Is
Last week, I was intrigued by the furore surrounding events in Manchester. I read with interest about the Assets Recovery Agency raids that have been linked to the alleged IRA Chief Of Staff, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy. In a nutshell, the … Continue reading
Posted in News & Media, Northern Ireland: Politics
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How do we reconcile the irreconcilable?
Carrying on from Mr Levee?s discussion in Armchair Experts & Keyboard Critics, we need to ask whether Nationalism and Unionism can ever live in harmony. This is not a simple question and will not have an obvious answer. Protestants are … Continue reading
Posted in News & Media, Northern Ireland: Politics
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Armchair Experts & Keyboard Critics
I’m going to start today with a simple statement: For the last 40 years, the politicians and government of Northern Ireland have been more concerned with party political in-fighting and trying to calm the terrorist situation than they have about … Continue reading
Posted in News & Media, Northern Ireland: Politics
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