I've been thinking about having guest posts for some time now, and then this landed in my lap (or more precisely my inbox). Everything Ulster's first guest post is a radical conspiracy theory about the potential emergence of a new brand of fundamentalism… more »

Antrim PSNI have launched a 'Welcome' DVD targetted at ethnic minorities to help them integrate into the community. Produced in Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Slovakian as well as English (no Chinese?) it provides information about accessing em… more »

Ironic maybe, that just a day after my "The Lady's Not For Turning" post, (indicating that even with the return of a devolved executive, our overlords in the Labour cabinet won't allow local politicians to take decisions on matters that are actually impo… more »

The Irish blogosphere was all buzz this morning with the news that an Irish film had one the about the presentation of the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival to an film about the Irish war of independence. Meanwhile a storm is brewing in the Br… more »

I'm disgusted to learn that the government plan to continue ignoring the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland, who backed retention of grammar schools in various polls. It seems that Maria Eagle, direct rule education minister, will push t… more »

Conviction: Possession of a hand grenade Sentence: 8 years Went Hungry: 22nd March Suicided: 21st May Born in Londonderry in 1957, O'Hara joined the INLA and was sentenced to 8 years in January 1980 for possession of a hand grenade. O'Hara's gr… more »

Please update your RSS feeds to this RSS 2 feed. I upgraded the b2evolution software that powers the blog to 0.9.2 for some anti-spam stuff and it's been nothing but hassle. Warning: semi-technical stuff ahead - technophobes, go read another post!… more »

... and 80 not-so-welcomes. It seems the winds of change are bypassing the Windy City. A mostly young Northern Ireland team was picketed last night in Chicago by a small rabble of everyone's favourite schizophrenics demonstrating their shameless into… more »

Ulster paper's exclusive scoop In news that may terrify shop assistants across the United States, an Ulster newspaper has run with a low-key exclusive today claiming Al-Qaida have revealed they plan to attack a chain of American convenience stores. The… more »

Conviction: attempted murder, possession of rifle & ammunition, membership of a proscribed organisation Sentence: 14 years Joined Hunger Strike: 22nd March Suicided 21st May The 7th child of 8 in a family from Carnlough, Co. Armagh, Raymond McC… more »