Alliance Party: Great Ideas, Shame About The Public Image
How can the Alliance Party capture the attention of the voters in Northern Ireland? Here’s a few ideas.
Parading Around: Flying In The Face Of Tradition
2007 will mark the 200th anniversary of Portadown District Orange Lodge’s annual commemoration of the Battle of the Somme. As the BBC website points out: it has only been over the past eight years that the Orangemen’s annual Battle of the Somme commemoration service has been making headlines in newspapers and on television screens around […]
Decent People – The Ulster Unionist Election Campaign
I pity David Trimble. Really, I do. Constantly having your leadership challenged, striving for lasting peace but having to balance this with Party alegiances and political career. There was a time a few years ago that I truely believed that Trimble and the Ulster Unionists (along with their opposite number the SDLP) could secure peace […]
Great Expectations: Pope Benedict XVI
Wow, a new Pope. . . Let’s get things straight – I’m a former Catholic (accident of birth, I’m afraid). These days I have precious little interest in the church, and it’s been this way for the last. . .hmmmmm. . . twelve years. On the other hand, I was surprised at the widespread media […]
The Middle Way: An Alternative Future For Northern Ireland
In Buddhism, the tale of the Buddha Siddhattha Gotama, explains that he was born into royalty and spent much of his early life living in luxury. Realising that his lifestyle was superficial, he went out into the world and became a monk. He spent several years following a harsh lifestyle, starving himself almost to the […]
