tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post3596071857353268976..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Big Wheels Keep On Turning….AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47785799635293170202018-07-10T15:12:06.309+01:002018-07-10T15:12:06.309+01:00Cont.....
This was clear to me by a soppy feel-goo...Cont.....<br /><i>This was clear to me by a soppy feel-good moment, when I took my kids to a park and noticed GAA tops mingling happily with NI tops. </i><br /><br />Dry your eye's Stevie and let me tell you how it is and then I will tell you how it was. So you went to a park and seen kids mingling, expressing their cultural identidy on their chests and fell for the bollicks. Chances are and frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-48523877058508675202018-07-10T14:55:38.656+01:002018-07-10T14:55:38.656+01:00StevieR....
I think 'The Song Remains the Same...StevieR....<br />I think 'The Song Remains the Same' would have been a better title for your peace...<br /><br /><i>A fortunate turn of events meant that a project I was working on finished early, and I was able to squeeze a visit to back home in, for the first time in years. </i><br /><br />And then you went to say...<br /><br /><i>I can usually tell if the place is prospering or not by frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-1575443976880053222017-09-15T20:51:41.658+01:002017-09-15T20:51:41.658+01:00Niall,
What I actually can see happening is a va...Niall, <br /><br />What I actually can see happening is a vast increase in immigrants attracted by the soft border to the UK. Belfast is changing but far faster than people will think.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52168853368814830032017-09-15T12:50:46.879+01:002017-09-15T12:50:46.879+01:00Steve R,
You’re 100% right, there is a change here...Steve R,<br />You’re 100% right, there is a change here and it is for the better but it is purely cosmetic Steve. It isn’t real. Palpable fear has been replaced with palpable disquiet. <br />There never was a single unitary people here so why try to imply that there ever was and can be? Living here at times is very like the Truman Show....at some point someone is going to bang in to the edge Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42724044810980448562017-09-13T22:15:51.016+01:002017-09-13T22:15:51.016+01:00Niall,
Perhaps, but like HJ I found a marked chan...Niall,<br /><br />Perhaps, but like HJ I found a marked change from what it used to be. I certainly did not detect a sense of fear that once was palpable across the city. No troops on the street, and oddly only one or two cop cars knocking about. As I said in piece, I'm not daft enough to think my individual experience was all enveloping but the change was marked.<br /><br />I don't Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30856608721748658232017-09-13T14:35:58.961+01:002017-09-13T14:35:58.961+01:00Like the guys I recently spent some time in Belfas...Like the guys I recently spent some time in Belfast after a long absence. Myself and my partner and two of her grandchildren, thanks to Air b&b, stayed a couple of days and nights in the salubrious environs of Malone Park and did the tourist thing around the city centre visiting some of the new attractions.<br /><br />What I saw during that limited and admittedly closeted experienced was a Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-63953714999388530342017-09-13T09:56:39.285+01:002017-09-13T09:56:39.285+01:00Steve,
Don’t be fooled by what you see and hear. ...Steve,<br />Don’t be fooled by what you see and hear. There is a state mantra that is often repeated to the point where it becomes valueless and irritating. The recent local and Westminster elections clearly demonstrated just how divided this place is. <br />The city fathers continue to spout the much clichéd statements of the peace process, cultural respect, parity of esteem and the children Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-51396205074961806282017-09-12T22:27:10.385+01:002017-09-12T22:27:10.385+01:00Frankie,
It is a fair comment, I really didn'...Frankie,<br /><br />It is a fair comment, I really didn't see any kids 'goofing out' (drugs?) around the City Hall but then again the place was full of tourists.<br /><br />My point is there appears to be a greater mingling of the children from both sides, which could only be a good thing.<br /><br />Not sure why you would want to blow up hotels and retail parks frankie, especially Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2857645285194531932017-09-12T19:28:00.892+01:002017-09-12T19:28:00.892+01:00Stevie,
You must have walked through Belfast with...Stevie,<br /><br />You must have walked through Belfast with sun galsses, were very drumk or simply didnt look beyond the bottom of your latte that you probably bought in one of the many Cafe Neros dotted around the Belfast city centre/Botanic area.<br /><br />Like you I also left Belfast and the island and ended up with a non planned self imposed exile. Mine was for 27ys. When I came back to frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.com