I saw this a couple of days ago and have been meaning to post on the fact that the Assembly has already cost the tax payer £100m in the time since its been suspended (which I touched on in January), but now it's expected to cost up to a further &po… more »

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday today. Image source: Agencia Brasil I'd just like to take a couple of minutes to give my best wishes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on today her 80th birthday. I was delighted to hear the o… more »

It's that time again - time to support Everything Ulster by helping Beano get a new toy as Everything Ulster goes into shameless sales mode. If I told you you could get an Xbox 360 for $1 you'd say I was mad. Then again, back when I talked about a fre… more »

A major PSNI security operation in County Armagh has recovered components of a 250lb bomb It seems police officers have successfuly prevented an imminent republican bomb attack today, recovering components for a 250lb car bomb (I believe that's 115Kg… more »

The Republic of Ireland should revert to displaying distances and speeds on road signs in miles and miles per hour in the interests of safety, it has been suggested. Chairman of the Republic's National Safety Council Gay Byrne has heard calls from SDLP a… more »

After the Daily Ireland's attempts to pre-emptively justify republican rioting in Dublin over a poster that may or may not have been carried at the rally, you'd be forgiven for thinking that republicans were against the glorification of terrorists (convi… more »

Newtownabbey Borough - AKA The Den of Inequity I've seen so much ballocks eminating from Sinn Fein lately I don't have time to go through it all but I thought this was funny. On the same day Sinn Fein lambasted the DUP for wasting time lobbying for s… more »

Determined to leave their mark on the landscape of Northern Ireland before the reorganisation of local government which will almost certainly see them swallowed up into a super-council, councillors in Londonderry are to go to the High Court to get a ruli… more »

Blogging has been slow this week. I've been off university but busy revising and all sorts of freaky stuff like that. Aside from that, the 2 big stories have been done numerous times elsewhere so I'm only going to provide brief highlights in this amalgam… more »

I'm yet to be convinced of the merits of throwing £33 million at loyalist communities over the next few years in the hope it will encourage them to play nice. There's no doubt that some of the areas are in a desperate need of regeneration, but the… more »