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Error in Account 4275
Even last night I just knew that there would be matters of great portent today. We had gone to bed as usual at 8.30 after watching our recording of...
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Life's fuel
The farmers tend it, and then they send it to shops, we spend on it, for we depend on it, and … some, corrupt, supplies disrupt, grow rich and fat in greed on that which …
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The Day Christies Went Up
The Day Christies Went Up By Paul McCann I was standing outside Stewarts supermarket the day Christies was blown up . A large crowd stood opposite...
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Snowballed At The Mill
Snowballed At The Mill By Paul McCann It was 1947 when the bid freeze had come and on the streets of Ardoyne the first heavy snow fall landed .. A...
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An Ordinary Day At School
An Ordinary Day At School by Paul McCann I remember the days I’d come home from St Gabriel’s and Mammy would look at me and say “So tell me son ,...
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Come Back To Ardoyne
Come Back To Ardoyne by Paul McCann Come back to Ardoyne from where ever you are , in Zambia . Zimbabwe or Zanzibar . So many have left us on an...
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Pitches From My Past
Pitches From My Past by Paul McCann On all weather pitches our legs we were getting hacked, there was no time to think and no time to react , you had...
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Bob A Job Week 1964
Bob A Job Week 1964 By Paul McCann There was once a time of innocence in the world when children were safe to go around on their own without adult...
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FAIL
FAIL Verb or noun? Which will it be? It makes a world of difference to me... The first, a distinct creative act A willing to be As yet imperfectly...
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Thanks y'all at ABC Tales
Day after day, thousands of writers struggle on, trying to improve their craft. Usually they get zero feed back and have to do their best to make...
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Earl Beardie at Glamis (A Legend)
He sits in a narrow chamber forever, throwing dice with the Devil, wearily feigning outrage at Auld Hornie's underhand tactics. The dice rattle like...
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Luton Revisited (After John Hegley)
Many years ago, John Hegley wrote a seismic political poem about class and mobility for his home town of Luton. It still shocks today. You can hear...
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The Oupa and the Sea
My Afrikaans Grandfather Beer and jokes weekend golf and holidays and practising his swing, they said his drive wasn't so far but it was straight. He...
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ELECTION 2024
ELECTIONS 2024 India's democratic exercise begins, EC monitors it, with enough power, The judiciary can’t question it Within the constitutional...
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How Could I Be So Stupid
Dear diary...just had to write this reminder to myself to not be foolish again. It all started on Friday 12th April 2024. Me and my partner began our...
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The Full English
Goodbye to all that.
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“Are You Ready to Go Back to Titanic?”
Apparently not. Today is the celebration of Durten’s life. In the Universal Hall. Last Thursday I asked a friend when it was arranged. I felt my...
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Wonderful King
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] God pre-eminent we worship, wholly wise and full of grace. He alone can be the Saviour, only He can keep us...
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Tea
You loved tea and drank it continuously. Not just any tea though, it had to be Darjeeling with full fat milk. ‘Weak as p**s’, some would mock. You’d...
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Killing Scorpio - Part Two
It was upstairs in the smaller of the O2 venues and the place was only half full so we had no trouble in threading our way through to the front. We...
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