A bit like last week’s star of the show, Gerry Carroll, the living legend that is Kate Hoey rarely disappoints when it comes to her sound bites. She and Gerry, though, don’t think along similar lines politically, it should be noted. Kate has been in
With no news as yet on whether, how or even if our Executive will introduce any revenue-raising measures, the fairly pointless use of the begging bowl continues unabated this week. Apparently, we’re due some form of a budget imminently from Caoimhe Archibald but the gap
So Rishi Sunak seems a bit bemused by the fact that, in his words, since the pandemic something has gone wrong. A whopping 850,000 more people are now ‘economically inactive’ in the UK as a whole than before Covid came a-calling. Bloody hell, Prime Minister,
Given that we were nearly cancelled a month or two back thanks to a harmless little quip about International Women’s Day, we’re a tad reluctant to delve into the thorny and hazardous subject of Relationships & Sexuality Education (RSE) in our schools, the topic of
Robin Swann’s announcement that he intends to step down as Health Minister once the General Election is eventually called has thrown another cat amongst the pigeons up at Stormont. To be fair to Wee Robin, he’s doing the honourable thing. It would be well nigh
The 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement this week gave all of us a chance to look back at what was achieved back in April of 1998, as well as to take stock of where we are now in political terms. It’s not a
The Brexit process seems to have reached the stage now where, even when something supposedly momentous happens, most of us shrug our shoulders and carry on regardless. This week was a case in point. Over in Brussels, the gormless looking David
Michel Barnier strikes us a man of infinite patience, the type of man whose easy Gallic charm isn’t easily ruffled. But the Barnier patience must have been sorely tested earlier this week when Sinn Fein and the DUP arrived in Brussels….on
Our call to the business organisations last week to stop pandering to our local politicians turned out to be well timed…if accidentally. Shortly after the blog hit your screens, the NI Chamber of Commerce had all of the main party leaders at their big Richard
Eye View – Looking Forward… Not Back For those of you still on the Algarve or basking in the steamy heat of Marbella or Mallorca, your problems are more likely to revolve around the persistent humidity and the cost of air conditioning. Or how you’re