Nelson's View

Nelson McCausland MLA (Democratic Unionist Party - Constituency: North Belfast). A personal blog in which I comment on a wide variety of issues, political, cultural, social, historical and religious. If something takes my attention, then I may well comment on it.

Saturday, 11 August 2012

Ulster band are world champions

Today the World Pipe Band Championships were held in Glasgow with 234 pipe bands taking part. The annual competition is organised by...

Ardoyne dissident protest shambles

This morning the Ligoniel Walker Club of the Apprentice Boys of Derry walked down the Crumlin Road towards the city centre before heading o...

Friday, 10 August 2012

Katie's Christian faith

Katie Taylor has won a gold medal for Team Ireland in the Olympic Games. This is the first time that women's boxing has been includ...

Thursday, 9 August 2012

23% drop in civil partnerships

Last year, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics, the number of civil partnership ceremonies in the United Ki...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Joe Coggle

This morning I attended the funeral of former Belfast councillor Joe Coggle. I had first met him in the early 80s through the Save Our Sch...

The human cost of alcohol abuse

Today it was reported in the local press that a 55 year old man from Portadown had died from inhalation of gastric contents due to acute...

Saturday, 4 August 2012

SDLP in disarray on 'gay marriage' (2)

This morning the Irish News reports a further development in the SDLP story. Councillor Pat McCarthy from South Belfast, one of the tw...

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