![]() The Irish Football Association doesn’t much like Sunday sport. ![]() What’s that? Tell us more about the Sunday football row thing? Well, fair enough, but be warned – you mind find that your appetite for Loyal Ulster Bible stories may not be as big as you think it is in this year of Our Lord nineteen twenty-three. HOT on the heels of a row over Sunday football, Antrim and Newtownabbey Distr… Hands across the border – it’s what we need isn’t it?Īcross Loyal Ulster the Bible belt is tightening Their food and drink is basic but nutritious: breakfast rolls from petrol stations chicken tenders from Supermac’s Football Specials from Letterkenny sweet shops cans of Heineken from Dunnes Stores offies.” The music in their smoke-filled shebeens is primitive and raw, but for a glass of poitin or a mug of porter they will happily do one of the Ed Sheeran covers they have learned to please the tourists. ![]() The acrid smell of turf hangs heavy in the air and life here is lived to a soundtrack of braying donkeys and the rattle of cartwheels on cobblestone. “They are a friendly and simple people, quick to smile but quicker to anger. In the event, the View from Stormont piece on what life is like Where There Be Dragons was a fascinating insight into what the thran, straight-talking and God-fearing folk of Loyal Ulster might expect to see if they ever book a flight to Monaghan with a stopover in Dubai, as the following extract illustrates. It’s possible – just, Squinter supposes, as it’s possible that there are people in Poleglass who keep bees or just as it’s possible that there are those in the Glens of Antrim who perform the ancient Japanese art of Noh theatre in their gardens. It may well be that Drogheda is as alien and unknowable to some as the mythical island of Hy-Brasil, its people as exotic and alien to them as the blue aliens from Avatar. Perhaps there are people in this loyal little corner of Paradise who have never broken for the border. But with the greatest of respect to the lads at UTV, he’s not in urgent need of a primer on what the pubs are like in Dundalk the price of coffee in Dublin what’s in a breakfast roll in the Lifford Centra or indeed what the roads are like around Sligo. He hopes one day to feel the white sand of the Copa Cabana between his toes explore the underwater wonders of the Great Barrier Reef swoop in a chopper into the epic vastness of the Grand Canyon trek the sprawling rhododendron forests of the Himalayas. He longs for instance, to know what life is like in the teeming eastern metropolises of Beijing, New Delhi and Jakarta. Now Squinter is all for finding out what places are really like. The UTV political round-up show View from Stormont this week turned its attention to the subject of a possible future handover of power at Tayto Castle and a trailer for the programme said: “As demands increase on the Irish government to prepare for Irish unity, we examine what life in the Republic is like." THE quickening pace of the debate on Irish unity has combined with the high temperatures this week to spread a certain sense of discombobulation, Squinter feels.Īnd it wasn’t just in boozed-up and sunburnt feral youths beating the bejaysus out of each other on social media that we saw the rising mercury take its toll.
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