Eric Waugh
So, are these the people we are really voting for on Thursday?
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.
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Inside Eric Waugh
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: 9
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.
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Sinn Fein may be laughing when the Euro votes are counted
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Much midnight oil is being burned by party strategists on the unionist side
over next month's European elections because they know the unionist vote is
going to be split three ways.
Comments: 17
One MLA for every 16,000 of us? We have let too many in already
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
When a nation is on its uppers, all must be seen to be doing their bit.
Comment: 1
Why we should be ashamed of bigoted attacks on immigrants
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
On the night in question she hid under the kitchen table. The gang of thugs
had broken in.
Comments: 4
Gordon and his spin doctors have fuelled more public anger
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The son-of-the-manse aura of sanctity which some sensed around Gordon Brown
was never apparent to me.
Comment: 1
How EU regulations have left our fishermen in deep water
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Two Co Down fishermen are imprisoned in Walton jail in Liverpool. Their crime?
Comments: 6
How job losses at Shorts are grim reflection of hard times
Friday, 3 April 2009
The scale of the job losses announced by Shorts — close to 1,000 — confirms
starkly the extent of the downturn the Northern Ireland community now faces.
Comment: 1
Could Gordon’s plans for royals lead to a dis-United Kingdom?
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Various theories are abroad as to why, in the midst of the worst economic
crisis in 80 years, the Prime Minister has chosen to launch himself on the
reef-strewn shoals of religion, Catholics and the Crown.
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Ireland today must have St Patrick turning in his grave
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The next time you are in Dublin and passing the Royal Dublin Society along
Merrion Road, take a glance at the substantial lamp standards which you see
at intervals along the kerb.
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How those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
We learn from history that men and women never learn anything from history.
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Those paying lip service to Union don’t speak from the heart
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
We were at our very best on Friday evening; on Saturday evening we were at our
worst.
Comments: 23
How UK always plays second fiddle as America calls the tune
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
There will be much humbug talked and written this week while the Prime
Minister is in Washington.
Comments: 4
Is anyone really interested in Sinn Fein’s call for Irish unity?
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
The realists in the propaganda game always argue that there is no such thing
as bad publicity.
Comments: 46
How can Christians have faith in PC officialdom that ignores them?
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Some time ago the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin told a curious inquirer
that, yes, it was indeed true that there were plans to build new lavatories
in one of their buildings which would have a deliberate peculiarity.
Comments: 21
New stadium at Maze never had a sporting chance
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
To some the Maze was the obvious site for a sports stadium.
Comments: 25
These cash payments don’t take account of the pain of the victims
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Colm McCallan, a Belfast Catholic, was aged 25 when he died; but he was still
a student, though married with a child.
Comments: 6
As we can tell Obama, it won’t be an easy task healing division
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
You know how the world regards Northern Ireland now. Bombs were yesterday.
Paisley and the IRA have faded.
Comments: 5
Why must traditional families be less well off than single mums?
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
The Prime Minister has made his peace with |another big fish in the Labour
pond.
Comments: 18
The Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and why so few can lecture the Israelis
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
One cannot generalise, but it is a fact that there is a tendency for the
loyalist-Protestant-unionist interest in Northern Ireland to side with the
Jewish Israelis in the endless conflict in the Middle East.
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