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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.
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.
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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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.”
Empires do not become empires by being nice or honourable or generous.
Another feature of successful empires is a reluctance to give up the territories that they have previously “acquired”.
At time of writing it would appear that the interest of Mr. Andrew Ellis in buying Rangers is no more.
There are many reasons why anyone with the necessary millions would not want to buy the Scottish champions or indeed any SPL club at the moment.
This is the day for we Irish. A difficult history has turned us from an insular people into a diaspora nation.
These words blink to life in sight of Clew Bay where I played in rowing boats as a boy on summer vacation and where my father before me fished and worked around the small islands.
By Tony Hamilton
“People are asking how bad is it at Rangers? If we did not take this action, it could have been bad. We need to get the costs down and with the greatest respect, even if we kept Kris Boyd, I do not think there would be any guarantees this season”
Sir David Murray 6th January 2009
It has been a difficult few months for any of us who follow the boys in green.
If the punch in the gut equaliser from Italy in Croke Park was the injury then the Henry handball in Paris was the insult.
For those of you who follow the Republic of Ireland then you’ll know about that sense of injustice.
It’s still there.
It just is.
So it was that last night that we started to move on.
Time to begin again.
As with any look back over a year one’s view is always an entanglement of the global the national and the personal.
From my vantage point here on Ireland’s western seaboard much is changed and much remains the same.
