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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
People living in Dublin have got their first real glimpse since the bombings of the 1970s of what life has been like for many people in Northern Ireland for many years. Is this Republican Sinn Fein’s way of showing unionists that they would be treated fairly in a united Ireland? I think it’s safe to [...]