Did you not know? Not content with bringing peace to these Emerald Shores, the venerable Gerry Adams has been applying pressure on other terrorist groups to come in from the struggle, wipe their feet and get involved in politics. According to the Sinn Fein website: “Sinn Fein has been in dialogue with all of the […]
In a move destined to shock absolutely no-one in Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley Jr is a) angry b) offended c) outraged d) all of the above by Tony Blair’s remarks about the Protestant Bigot. The gist of Blair’s outburst was aimed at Muslin extremists, but used a local analogy to spice things up: “They are […]
A University of Ulster report that suggests that Northern Ireland’s politicians are “badly out of step with ordinary people“. Interestingly, the research shows that a growing number of DUP supporters think the party needs to learn to compromise. I’m slightly sceptical of this, and the claim that “support among DUP voters for power-sharing had doubled […]
Yeah, that’s right. After a terrible snubbing at the Irish Blog Awards (in which, in fairness we didn’t push readers to vote for us), my better half and I have won the Holks on the Fill “King and Queen of the Blogworld” award! Hooray for us! We’d like to thank again all the people who […]
Well, the votes have been passed to our Independent Polling Authority (yes, another unelected government quango) for ajudication and the results are now in. The IPA have followed protocol and ignored non-Northern Irish places such as Spain and controversially…..bed. While the Mournes and the Glens of Antrim area have both been well represented, the result […]
Testing, testing. Can everybody hear me? It’s been quiet around The Levee Breaks for the last few days because I’ve been changing web hosts. I had a couple of complaints that the site was running slowly over the last wee while and some of you had trouble posting comments, so I decided to move over […]
Here’s a slip of the keyboard for you… I was trying to show a friend Chris Gaskin’s Balrog website the other day and..er…typed in the wrong URL, getting Bralog instead. Suddenly the Republican movement becomes a whole lot more attractive…. Happy accident, I guess. Or a Freudian slip of the keyboard…. Anyway, that’s the tit-ilation […]
I’m curious what you guys think about this. Back in December, when we went to Rome, I was held back by Airport security at Aldergrove. I was a bit surprised – this had never happened before – but I went with the flow. The security guy took my backpack and opened it up, taking out […]
I meant to write about Chris Jackson’s The Abundance Site some time ago, but this has been languishing in my drafts folder, so I thought I’d share it here. Unhappy People Living Unhappy Lives Mrs Levee and I know (more than our fair share of) miserable people. People who feel they are downtrodden, that the […]
I understand the Healing Through Remebering group had some concerns over the televised format of Facing The Truth, and having seen the overblow starting sequence, it’s easy to see why. Whoever thought that it was a good idea to have Archbishop Tutu’s entrance by helicopter, that ridiculous ‘tension’ music and the over-the-top introduction by Fergal […]
