The Platoon - Ulster Girl I thought I'd kick off with a song I found recently called Ulster Girl by some crowd called The Platoon. Its a bit of a country/ballad type song (I'm obviously no music expert) about a girl's desire to keep Ulster free. Its n… more »

The Problem Northern Ireland has a real image problem, that's hard to deny. Despite the recent revival in Ulster-Scots, it's saddening that there aren't too many decent songs around which deal specifically with Ulster or Northern Ireland, particularly w… more »

Perhaps it's evidence of Godwin's Law, but I made a reference (originally an inaccurate one - thanks Aonghus) to a Dublin statue of a celebrated Republican and a Nazi sympathiser, Sean Russel. It was something of an off-the-cuff remark in the thread abou… more »

The Friends of William Orr Republican Flute Band parade scheduled for 9th August in Ballymena will go ahead, but will do so under conditions set down by the Parades Commission following concerns raised by the unionist community in the town. The full t… more »

As pointed out earlier on EU and already blogged elsewhere the Romeo 12 watchtower in South Armagh's bandit country is being dismantled as I type. It seems little has changed for our Tony-appointed lord and master Peter Hain since his days in the "Troops… more »

Well so far responses from senior politicians haven't been entirely unpredictable. The governments are practically throwing a party for Gerry and the Widowmakers, Peter Hain warns Unionists not to doubt the sincerity of his buddies in the IRA or else the… more »

Yep folks, that moment you've all been waiting for. No, not lunchtime, I'm just finished thanks. The provisional IRA have stated that they're ending the "armed campaign" (read terrorist bloodfest) that they forced on this country for 35 years. Isn't… more »

I just heard the headline on the UTV evening news but apparently he hasn't actually been acquitted of becoming re-involved in terrorism. According to the BBC Sean Kelly has been given "temporary release pending an application to the Sentence Review Commi… more »

I have been saying this since Martin McGuinness introduced his plans to destroy Northern Ireland's schools. Today a comment in the Times echos my view (thanks to the Young Unionists for highlighting this) Northern Ireland still selects by 11-plus and… more »

No doubt you're all as excited as I was, finding out that the WTO is to host it's 2005 summit, apparently the first to ever be held in the west, at the Waterfront in Belfast. No, not the World Trade Organisation, I am of course referring to the World Toi… more »