I love stories like the one below (in bold and italics) about our troubled little province.   It make the point wonderfully, that nothing can be framed in the black and white terms that either the Unionists or Nationalists love.   This particular episode relates to a bigoted, blinkered view that unfortunately still seems to hold sway in some protestant/ unionist circles.   It is a great pity in all the years of schooling that each of us endures, that we cannot be taught to ask a few simple questions about some of the things our culture presents as the truth.   I love too that the person who paid for the painting was Craig, a man who openly boasted that he did not, and would not, employ a Catholic. The text comes from a booklet of reminisces called “My Bangor from the 1890’s”, published 1975 by our local newspaper, The County Down Spectator ( https://countydownspectator.co.uk/ ).   It was written by C.F. Milliken, and I have included a picture of the i...

I still hold to my comments published in my first Brexit post (see: https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2018/11/brexit-dirty-word-in-any-european.html ).   But still the debacle rolls on.   Frankly, nearly 3 years on from the referendum, the whole shambles is becoming downright embarrassing.   I have used the picture below on my first post, but it is worth repeating.     So a few more points.   Good old Teresa is still sticking fast to her no second vote stance, despite the current shambles.   I know that a small majority voted leave, but really, how much worse is it to be governed by Brussels than by the current occupants of Westminster, especially after they have proved themselves so incapable of running anything over the last few years?   Here in good old ‘Norn Iron’, we have the additional joy of having politicians that have been absent from Stormont for years but who are still getting paid!   It’s nice to know that all the...