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.

Friday, 26 April 2013

Thanks to the Irish News!

I haven't posted anything on this blog for some days - pressure of work and other commitments have taken up so much time that it wasn...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

The McMahon Murders (2)

In a previous post I referred to an incident on 24 March 1922 when five people were shot dead in a house in Kinnaird Terrace in Belfast....

Monday, 8 April 2013

The cost of alcoholism

The Irish News (28 March 2013) has reported that: 300 lives are lost every year in Northern Ireland to alcoholism, six times the number...

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Ian Knox - cartoonist for Trotskyists

Earlier this week the Irish News published a good editorial in which they condemned the appearance of a gunman and the involvment of ver...

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Nazi graffiti in a Cork graveyard

IRA chief-of-staff Tom Barry I do not condone in any way the actions of those who damage gravestones and I make that absolutely clear b...

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Update on the Ardoyne dissident parade

Yesterday North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds condemned the dissident republican parade organised in Ardoyne on Saturday by the Republican Netwo...

The four Ardoyne Fianna (1) David McAuley

On Saturday 30 March the Henry Joy McCracken Republican Flute Band and the Republican Network for Unity organised a parade and republic...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.