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, 30 March 2013

Sean South GAA Club

This morning the Irish News reported a campaign to retain a small rural primary school in county Armagh. St Michael's Primary School ...

Thursday, 21 March 2013

More on St Patrick's Day in Belfast

Throughout this week there have been a number of reports of sectarian behaviour in the centre of Belfast by Irish nationalists 'celebra...

Monday, 18 March 2013

The McMahon Murders

The murder of the McMahon family in Belfast in 1922 is often highlighted by nationalist and republican writers as an example of sectarian m...

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Patrick - Apostle of Ulster

Slemish Saint Patrick wasn't Irish. He wasn't born in Ireland. He wasn't sent to Ireland by the Pope. He didn't wear...

Saturday, 2 March 2013

The GAA and Hill 16

On 23 September 2012 TG4 broadcast a history of Hill 16 at Croke Park, the home of the GAA, in Dublin and it set right one of the myths a...

A 'love affair with alcohol'

Every day I receive copies of newspaper cuttings relating to the work of the Department for Social Development and I was struck by the cont...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Gerry Adams second home

'Economical with the truth? Well only a wee bit.' Newton Emerson keeps a careful watch on Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and h...

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