May10
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gkHwU4DRA8
This I have just watched this  squabbling chaos and it begs a few questions.
Is this what happens when a polity shares some commonality with Saudi Arabia, but pretends that it is modern and normal.
The desert Kingdom doesn’t have a written constitution either.
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May10
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
Some cities connect with you.
They leave a lasting impression on you like a lover.
For a time when I was much younger Boston was a regular haunt, south Boston to be precise. I loved the place and it’s people and I clicked. I love Boston. Subsequently I was horrified to learn earlier that this wonderful vibrant city with a huge Irish community might be visited by the Famine Song Road Show.
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May8
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
More than a year ago, I asked Ray McKinney, a turn around consultant in the USA, to examine the published accounts of Murray International Holdings. He did so and published a long detailed piece on my site.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/murray-international-holdings/
Ray was the first person I asked to guest on this site.
Ray made some strong predictions about what the next set of accounts that MIH would eventually release would look like.
We had to wait to see if he was correct.
He was.
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May8
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
Their fall has been Shakespearean.
Him a loyalist Iago her the Lady MacBeth with the dream home.
They had it all. The Orange Cherie and Tony.
The Swish family Robinson are no more.
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April23
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/2942662/Gers-want-Jim-he-wants-Scotland.html
On reading this piece from Roger Hannah in the Scottish Sun I can’t help
but think that the former may depend on the latter.
Perhaps the sub editor would have been closer to the mark had the headline read:
“ Jim wants Scotland now Gers want Jim.”
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