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Eric Waugh
Putting our heroes first? Now you are speaking my language
Walcome tae the Scottish Pairlament. Ye hae mony weys tae mak yir views kent
whan ye hae strang feelins aboot issues.
Comments: 3
Inside Eric Waugh
Danger for Brown when public's puzzlement at war turns to fury
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Afghanistan's daily agony means that Remembrance Day is now very much a sorrow
for this generation.
Comments: 2
We're stuck with the Assembly . . . and it's no laughing matter
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
A few evenings ago the Minister of Health at Stormont, Michael McGimpsey, was
to be seen on the television news offering his audience what he termed a
'joke'.
Comments: 10
Why the Pope shouldn't count on being welcomed with open arms
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
You can call them Anglo-Catholics, or 'traditionalists', or just
conservatives, but for high churchmen in the Church of England the door
leading to Rome has long been ajar.
Comments: 9
Labour's guilty secret: BNP is a result of drift on immigration
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
The brouhaha over the coming appearance of the egregious Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday night is interesting.
Comments: 6
Why Protestant schools pose a test of the Republic's democracy
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
When I discuss the position of Protestants south of the border, invariably I receive indignant letters - from southern Protestants - which insinuate "How dare you!"
Comments: 51
Eric Waugh: Just what dark plots are going through Mandelson's mind now?
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
With the Republic's big 'Yes' vote on the Lisbon Treaty on Friday, the great Mandelson-Brown-Blair political game took another hefty lurch forward - and David Cameron, up to his neck in the tensions of party conference week, knows he can do little to stop it.
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How Euro Treaty may create a brand new generation of rebels
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
On Friday our neighbours across the border are set to vote Yes to the Lisbon
Treaty.
Comment: 1
Did republicans pull a fast one when putting arms beyond use?
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The jailing of three republicans in a Belfast court last week is said to provide the pretext for riotous behaviour in Lurgan. But the significance of the case for the peace process lies, not so much in the juvenile burning of cars, as in the detail of what the men were jailed for. They were arrested for possessing a mortar, the charges for which contained the powerful Czech explosive, Semtex.
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Eric Waugh: Alan Turing, the reluctant hero who fought a secret war to liberate Europe
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Alan Turing, the brilliant wartime codebreaker at Bletchley Park, was treated
savagely over his homosexuality.
Comments: 3
How victims of Gaddafi’s arms deal with the IRA were sold out
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
There is an ancient fishlike smell about the Government's diplomacy with
Colonel Gaddafi's Libya that becomes more pungent by the day.
Comments: 2
Eric Waugh: As war loomed, politicians left Belfast open to enemy air raids
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
The key fact about 1939 is that 1918 was a mere 21 years away.
Comments: 7
Eric Waugh: Why Gareth’s a victim of our failure to tackle drink culture
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
The case of Gareth Anderson, the teenage victim who has ruined his liver with
booze, is agony writ large.
Comments: 9
Eric Waugh: How rugby team dropped the ball in its pursuit of sporting riches
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Foul play — Harlequins tried to win vital game by faking injury to a player.
Director of rugby, Dean Richards (below) later resignedThe rugby world has
been convulsed by something the headline writers have named ‘Bloodgate'.
Comments: 2
Eric Waugh: Why Afghan front line is now on our front pages
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
The homecoming of the flag-draped coffins of the young soldiers killed in
Afghanistan means heart-rending tragedy for their families.
Comments: 2
Why we should take a very dim view of council Holywood park sale
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
There is a fine little row brewing in Holywood, Co Down and its neighbourhood
which you should know about and about which you will be hearing more, I do
not doubt. It is all over that most emotive of all commodities: land.
Comments: 9
Illegal immigrants could put our healthcare in jeopardy
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
It happens so often as we approach the terminal stage of the political cycle.
Governments acquire a death wish.
Comments: 13
Isn’t it a bit rich for Northern Ireland to be pleading poverty?
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Are we poor? Or not? It is a question we must answer soon.
Comment: 1
So, are these the people we are really voting for on Thursday?
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Voting on Thursday? No? Please excuse me. Sorry to have troubled . . . Oh, you
are? . . . Really? . . . So you support the Lisbon Treaty? . . . Yes, I see
. . . Indeed. It's not really the Treaty, then. I know, I know . . . You
feel safer with your own sort? . . . Quite. I quite understand. Better the
devil, you know!
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Sins of the fathers are still haunting Catholic Church
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Tomorrow the social earthquake unloosed within the Republic in the early 1990s
reaches its crescendo when newspapers, television and radio south of the
border will be dominated by the first findings of the Government's
3,000-page, five-volume investigation into child abuse by up to 500 priests.
Comments: 10
Why MPs’ expenses have given Gordon and David a lot to ponder
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Only the most rabid cynic can profess to be other than shocked at the
disclosures revealing how MPs and peers have been lining their pockets at
the taxpayer's expense.
Comment: 1
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