Archives for: May 2005
Slow Blogging ...
Forgive me if there's less action at Everything Ulster in the coming days than there usually is. I'm moving house over the weekend and won't be able to report very often. As you can imagine, I'm pretty excited about the move but unfortunately this means… more »
Northern Ireland vs Germany Tickets on Sale Now!
Tickets for the upcoming friendly with Germany went on general sale today at a price of £20 each. I've grabbed myself and my 'troops' 4 tickets in the West Stand for this 125th Anniversary match. Tickets are available from the IFA at Windsor Avenue… more »
IMC Report Published Today
Following calls at the weekend to publish the latest IMC report (now nearly a month on) on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, the government has made the report's findings public today. Among the conclusions are findings that the IRA are still re… more »
Teenage Slags "The School's Fault" - Mum
Despite today's strike, the BBC still manage to report that 3 sisters in Derby are all proud mothers - at the ages of 12, 14 and 16! Jemma, the youngest of the 3, was the first to give birth in February last year. Weeks later, the other 2 found out they… more »
IMC Report Remains Unpublished
Tony Blair still hasn't published the IMC report on paramilitary activity which was presented to the government (and the Irish government) on 29th April, but publication was set aside until after the election. Now here we are 2 weeks after said election… more »
DUP's Wilson backs Robinson on Schools
Last week EU carried a story called "Grammar Schools Good for Social Mobility", in which we reported on East Antrim MLA Ken Robinson (UUP) highlighting LSE findings that Grammar Schools benefit working class pupils. Yesterday's Newsletter speaks of Sammy… more »
Deadly Assault Is Great Crack!!
That seems to be the attitude among some teenagers if this story from BBC news online is anything to go by. A 16 year old girl from Manchester was savagely attacked from behind yesterday as a crowd of boys watched the assault and filmed it on a mobile ph… more »
UK Must Pay More To EU
No, not Everything Ulster, the other EU, the European Union. The French, German and Polish leaders today called for an end to the UK's rebate, negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984 because Britain was paying an unfairly high contribution to the then EE… more »
Terrorist Apologists Oppose ID Card Shocker
Caitriona Ruane (I think that's Katrina to you and me), Sinn Fein's South Down MLA and spokesman on Equality and Human Rights has come out against the government's plans to introduce ID cards. No big surprise here, I mean the idea of the ID cards is to… more »
Amarillo Spoof Crashes MoD Computers!
This is probably old news to most of you by now, being reported on the BBC last night, but yesterday MoD computers were brought down by the mass circulation of a 52MB video clip of soldiers in Iraq performing a spoof of Tony Christie's "Amarillo" around… more »
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