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WorldbyStorm - 13:07 Wed Dec 31, 2025 The Irish Times has one of the more unlikely files to be released. This recounts how: some staff at the social security office in Coleraine, Co Derry were ?offended? by the card and requested that it be removed. The card was sent by the Sinn Féin office in the nearby town of Kilrea and bore ?a message … Continue reading "Christmas (card) story"
guestposter - 06:32 Wed Dec 31, 2025 As always, following on Dr. X?s suggestion, it?s all yours, ?announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose?, feel free.
WorldbyStorm - 13:08 Tue Dec 30, 2025 Was in the local library recently and what did I see on a shelf but two or three copies of the autobiography written by Eoghan Murphy, our former Housing Minister. Thought about whether I should borrow it, and in the end I did. Quite the work it is. Genuinely insightful, though not in ways that … Continue reading "A cautionary political tale for Christmas time: An adventure in Irish politics by an ambitious guy who wasn’t all bad but didn’t achieve much"
WorldbyStorm - 10:45 Tue Dec 30, 2025 Difficult to believe that it is 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act passed in the UK. But in some ways it’s the fact it was as late 1975 that is most notable. Difficult to overstate how important it was. The Guardian has a very good overview of the genesis of the Act and the … Continue reading "50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act passed in the UK"
WorldbyStorm - 07:53 Tue Dec 30, 2025 There’s been polling right up to the 24th of December in the UK, and what do we see barely five days later? This is quite a graph. Labour continues to plummet, Reform has peaked and is beginning to descend, and what’s this? The Tories are seeing something of a rebound. Now, it’s not huge, and … Continue reading "UK polling"
WorldbyStorm - 12:10 Mon Dec 29, 2025 Interesting enough information in the latest state papers released this month. This suggests just how the then government of the Republic was looking around for some kind of solution in the mid-1970s: A secret study carried out by the attorney general?s office in Dublin at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s explored asking the United … Continue reading "What it says in the State Papers"
WorldbyStorm - 09:17 Mon Dec 29, 2025 However one views him it seems unreasonable to blame Seamus Costello for the CRF which post dated his assassination by six years. |