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From the torygraph:
Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
During the 1970s the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast” became well known on Belfast’s [...]

Here’s what happens when you make a political appointment to a position like Ceann Comhairle (Chairman of Ireland’s Dail) instead of
electing somebody respected on all sides of the house. The man in question is John O’Donoghue and he is useless.

More on this over at twentymajor.net.

On the day of Ireland’s victory over England in rugby’s 2007 Six Nations Championship, that famous group of bright sparks that is Republican Sinn Fein staged a protest.
A protest against foreign games.
This picture says it all.
[courtesy of slugger and The ToryGraph]

You just can’t make this up.
Michael “Looney Loyalist” Stone, he of the recent “I am here to kill Gerry Adams” visit to Stormont, has said (via his solicitor) that his sojourn to the hill equipped with nothing but his wit (and an axe, a garrot, some guns and a handful of nailbombs) was not an [...]

There’s quite a good posting on slugger o’toole today, in relation to the activities (or lack thereof) of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Council’s two-day conference, Building a Human Rights Culture in Northern Ireland, starts today. The NIHRC says its role is “to ensure that the human rights [...]

From The Register:
An Ulster used car dealer has had his dodgy cordless phone confiscated after airline pilots were entertained by “Arthur Daley-style banter about makes and prices of used cars”, The Daily Mirror reports.
Skyjockeys cruising at 25,000 feet through the Dean Cross air traffic sector - extending from Manchester to central Scotland - had been [...]

Not to be outdone by a completely bonkers attempt to distrupt proceedings north of the border courtesy of resident nutjob Michael Stone (he of “lets’s shoot up a funeral” fame), a gentleman down south decided to stage his own little protest (this time without a gun, nailbombs, an axe and a garrotte) against what he [...]

Twink, Ireland’s one woman panto phenomenon, has been causing a bit of a stir these last few days. It seems a tape has appeared of a phone message that she left for her ex-husband, in which Twik leaves no doubt as to what she thinks of him becoming a father again with his slut whore [...]

Ken Loach’s new film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has had the British press up in arms, with one paper declaring that it is “designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud.”
In fact the critics had their condemnation in print before any of them had seen it! George Monbiot has a [...]