Monthly Archives: March 2006

Gerry Adams And The Spanish Peace Process

Posted on March 22, 2006 by levee

Did you not know? Not content with bringing peace to these Emerald Shores, the venerable Gerry Adams has been applying pressure on other terrorist groups to come in from the struggle, wipe their feet and get involved in politics. According … Continue reading →

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Ian Paisley Junior Outraged At Lack Of Recent Tabloid Coverage

Posted on March 22, 2006 by levee

In a move destined to shock absolutely no-one in Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley Jr is a) angry b) offended c) outraged d) all of the above by Tony Blair’s remarks about the Protestant Bigot. The gist of Blair’s outburst was … Continue reading →

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Are Our Politicians Losing Their Grip?

Posted on March 22, 2006 by levee

A University of Ulster report that suggests that Northern Ireland’s politicians are “badly out of step with ordinary people“. Interestingly, the research shows that a growing number of DUP supporters think the party needs to learn to compromise. I’m slightly … Continue reading →

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King and Queen of the Blogworld!

Posted on March 18, 2006 by levee

Yeah, that’s right. After a terrible snubbing at the Irish Blog Awards (in which, in fairness we didn’t push readers to vote for us), my better half and I have won the Holks on the Fill “King and Queen of … Continue reading →

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Your Favourite Northern Irish Place: The Result

Posted on March 16, 2006 by levee

Well, the votes have been passed to our Independent Polling Authority (yes, another unelected government quango) for ajudication and the results are now in. The IPA have followed protocol and ignored non-Northern Irish places such as Spain and controversially…..bed. While … Continue reading →

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Is This Thing On?

Posted on March 15, 2006 by levee

Testing, testing. Can everybody hear me? It’s been quiet around The Levee Breaks for the last few days because I’ve been changing web hosts. I had a couple of complaints that the site was running slowly over the last wee … Continue reading →

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My Kind Of Republican

Posted on March 9, 2006 by levee

Here’s a slip of the keyboard for you… I was trying to show a friend Chris Gaskin’s Balrog website the other day and..er…typed in the wrong URL, getting Bralog instead. Suddenly the Republican movement becomes a whole lot more attractive…. … Continue reading →

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What Made Airport Security Suspicious?

Posted on March 9, 2006 by levee

I’m curious what you guys think about this. Back in December, when we went to Rome, I was held back by Airport security at Aldergrove. I was a bit surprised – this had never happened before – but I went … Continue reading →

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Abundance. Life.

Posted on March 8, 2006 by levee

I meant to write about Chris Jackson’s The Abundance Site some time ago, but this has been languishing in my drafts folder, so I thought I’d share it here. Unhappy People Living Unhappy Lives Mrs Levee and I know (more … Continue reading →

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Facing The Truth: Michael Stone & The Hackett Family

Posted on March 7, 2006 by levee

I understand the Healing Through Remebering group had some concerns over the televised format of Facing The Truth, and having seen the overblow starting sequence, it’s easy to see why. Whoever thought that it was a good idea to have … Continue reading →

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