Archives for: July 2008
Sectarian Gesture Made to Celtic Fans
Celtic fans visiting Belfast Zoo have complained to councillors after they were the victims of vicious, provocative sectarian taunts. Everything Ulster contacted the fans who rubbished claims that it was in fact they who instigated the altercation with sectarian chants. more »
Money Matters - Watch This Space
by beano on 30 Jul 2008 at 16:03. Categories: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Business & Economy
Northern Irish bank notes may soon be given legal standing
I noticed an interesting sentence at the very bottom of a Telegraph article about a W.H. Smith store in London overturning a ban on Northern Irish bank notes.
A spokesman for HM Treasury sa… more »
Cuil is not cool
Maybe the age of internet development ended with google. Google are great. Their products are great (mostly). Their search engine is great. You want information, it gets you information, quickly and efficiently.
Cuil doesn't. It throws a mash of… more »
Someone explain this one to me
What is the point in Knol (http://knol.google.com/k/knol)? This, to me, isn't a rival to Wikipedia, it's a different format for something Google already does. It's a blog. Yes it's a centralised blog with a more focused purpose, but it's a blog.
I… more »
Observation
by Michael Shilliday on 26 Jul 2008 at 20:33. Categories: Internet, International, Northern Ireland, Business & Economy
Northern Ireland is full of tourists. Spending money. Good. more »
Iris Robinson's Vile Priorities
The Conservatives have a quote from a speech by Iris Robinson, upholder of God's law, made in the House of Commons on the topic of sex offenders.
There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.… more »
Republic Doesn't Register on ECB Radar
It's easy to think, when you're travelling abroad in Europe (or even hopping over the border), that it wouldn't be a good thing if we were to join the Eurozone and do away with all the nasty changing money business.
The Irish Times carries a cautionar… more »
Mixed Messages in Newry & Mourne
£3 million was budgeted last year on trying to reduce the relatively large number of people taking their own lives in Northern Ireland, a problem which the executive is resolved to tackle and one that disproportionately affects young people (and ma… more »
Alliance Justice Minister? Are you mad?
by Michael Shilliday on 09 Jul 2008 at 23:37. Categories: News, Northern Ireland, PSNI, Direct Rule, Law & Order, Politics, Devolved Government
Over the past few months it's become clear that the DUP won’t take Gerry Kelly and Sinn Fein won't take Jeffrey Donaldson as Justice Minister. This has led to the crazy notion that the Alliance should do it, and utterly predictably they seem amenable to… more »
Playing politics with racism
by Michael Shilliday on 09 Jul 2008 at 23:08. Categories: Internet, News, United Kingdom, Culture, Politics, Language
This kind of thing really winds me up.
A Tory frontbencher has apologised after using a racist phrase during a House of Lords debate.
Lord Dixon Smith retracted the remark in the chamber, saying: "I apologise, my Lords. I left my brains behind. I a… more »
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