Pól Ó Lorcáin
Paul Larkin
Chroniclers are privileged to enter where they
list, to come and go through keyholes, to ride
upon the wind, to overcome in their soarings up
and down, all obstacles of distance, time and
place.
Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge,
Chapter The Ninth
As another RTÉ personality stands for Fine Gael - we discover that George Lee was on Leave of Absence
RTÉ – The political wing of the Blueshirt state.
The real scandal about the George Lee affair has very little to do with the man himself, nor does it really affect Fine Gael, though neither party comes out unscathed from this political and journalistic débâcle. The Phoenix magazine has shown that Lee and Fine Gael had been loving up to each other for some time. No, the biggest cause for concern is that RTÉ, as the state broadcaster, has once again displayed its complete lack of independence and journalistic integrity.
Last month, I posted an article on the Cic Saor site lampooning the fact that the then Fine Gael politician George Lee had been a guest along with senior RTÉ journalist Charlie Bird on Miriam O’Callaghan’s Sunday morning radio show.
See-
http://www.fadooda.com/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2010-1-10
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The Long Drive To Peace
For Gerry Adams and Peter Robinson
Limbs still juddering from the drive
Riddled with machine gun gears and tyres
The cruel tarmac suddenly stopped
And we were home.
I stepped out under a vault of stars
And staggered to the end of the world
Orion shaping his once mighty sword
To a ploughshare over Gola island
Peace descending all about me
And the once Bloody Foreland
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Carraic -Gaoth Dobhair
5/02/2010
Stephen Collins and a parody of political analysis
In Saturday’s Irish Times (30th of January, 2010), political commentator Steven Collins served up possibly the worst example of political analysis I have ever seen in this our only ‘paper of record’ (allegedly). Stephen Collins does not like the Good Friday Agreement.
In fact his antipathy towards the Good Friday Agreement is so great that he does not even make a pretence of journalistic analysis but rather chooses to ignore the historical facts and vents his partitionist spleen at what he describes as pandering (I paraphrase) to the “extremes” of Northern politics. These extremes, needless to say, are Sinn Féin on the “Catholic” Side and Ian Paisley’s DUP on the Protestant side.
The article can be viewed here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0130/1224263433498.html
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