Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
4 days ago · Soapbox 16 January 2025 Belfast 2025: From E-Bikes to Halloween Dog Parades. How to Build a Better City… 896 Aaron Vennard is a Managing Consultant with 15 years in Financial Services across New York, Chicago, Toronto, London and Dublin while locally advocating to improve public transport and active travel across Greater Belfast though the Circle Line Campaign. Who remembers #Belfast2024 ...
“There is indeed a major threat to unionism, but it comes from …
Aug 27, 2024 · Davy Adams is a man who has had quite a journey. From being a loyalist paramilitary in Belfast to working for the Dublin-based charity Goal, where he worked in many countries across Africa and the Middle East. His newspaper columns are always worth reading for their reflective nature on our various issues, he really should write an autobiography. Anyway, his latest column for the Beltel ...
A do-nothing Programme for a do-nothing Executive
Sep 28, 2024 · A couple of weeks back, the sixth Northern Ireland Executive released its draft Programme for Government.. Coming over six months after the Executive was formed in February, following a gap in office of around two years, a naive observer might have had high hopes for this document, especially given that, during the election campaign in 2022, most of the parties talked up a good game about ...
Drivers told, stop your moaning about Belfast traffic…
Oct 1, 2024 · Driving in Belfast is never a fun experience at the best of times. Still, lately, it has gotten even worse with the roadworks around the new Grand Central Station and the closure of the Sydenham Bypass at the weekend for resurfacing. However, Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd does not have much sympathy. From Brendan Hughes at the BBC: Stormont’s infrastructure minister has defended his ...
Five takes on what second Trump may mean for Ireland…
Nov 7, 2024 · David Moane is Dublin-based and retired who likes to comment on current affairs. Here we reprint his short first take from his Facebook page that focuses largely, but not exclusively, on what Donald Trump’s second term might mean for Ireland. FIVE TAKES FOR TRUMP’S SECOND TERM The Trump coalition extends well beyond the traditional Republican base and is more representative of America as ...
Book review – “Running from Office” By Eoghan Murphy…
Nov 23, 2024 · This is a quite different political autobiography. Most focus on the achievements of the office holder (often exaggerating their personal involvement and positioning them at the centre of significant political events). This book tells of ambition and failure culminating in bursting into tears in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office. Eoghan Murphy was the controversial Fine Gael housing minister ...
#GE24 candidates in numbers and charts – Slugger O'Toole
Jun 8, 2024 · The parties with the highest proportion of female candidates are Aontú and the Conservatives (60%, 6 apiece).Alliance is the fielding the largest number of women (8), followed by the SDLP (7).Leaving aside Cross Community Labour Alternative which only has 1 candidate, the TUV has the greatest proportion of men nominated as candidates (85.7%) followed by the UUP (82.4%) and the DUP (81.3%).
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a ...
Apr 18, 2018 · This morning I came across this classic clip from The Monty Python and the Holy Grail film. Ever after 40 years, it is still a great send-up of our political system. Enjoy. A self-perpetuating autocracy King Arthur: Old woman! Dennis: Man. King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there? Dennis: I’m 37. King Arthur: What? Dennis: I’m 37. I’m not old. King Arthur ...
Slugger O'Toole – Conversation, politics and stray insights
Arnold Carton 13 January 2025 Elon Musk’s sudden interest in a 20-year-old scandal in Britain… 1138 Almost 2 weeks ago Elon Musk was at the centre of a major row with Trump supporters about Elon wanting to allow more foreign nationals into the USA under the H-1B visa programme. Critics of the H-1B system, particularly within … read …
GE ’24: Mid Ulster Constituency Profile… - Slugger O'Toole
Jun 22, 2024 · This was the sixth safest Westminster constituency in Northern Ireland in 2019, with 9,537 votes separating the winner, Francie Malloy (Sinn Féin), from Keith Buchanan (DUP). Malloy had held the seat since a by-election in 2013. Prior to that the seat had only been held by a nationalist for 10 out of the 63 years since it was created in 1950. Malloy is not standing again. The seat covers a ...