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Frank McNally on A History of Northern Ireland in 100 Euphemisms An Irishman’s Diary
27. A cold house for Catholics
28. “The Northern Disease […] at the present […] safely confined in its Ulster quarantine.” (George O’Brien, 1936)
29. Norn Iron
31. Puckoon
35. Nordies
42. Vanguard
47. Romper rooms
map-reading error.”
58. Q. Are you Catholic or Protestant? A. I’m an atheist, thank God.
59. Q. A Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?
60. On the blanket
62. Aitch Blocks
63. “It’s gonna happen, happen, happens all the time/It’s gonna happen, happen, till you change your mind”.
64. As British as Finchley
65. A failed political entity
66. Third Force
70. Slab.
71. “I pondered on the churches of England and Rome/Hadn’t paid the rent for my spiritual home.”
National Extra
If it weren t for the pandemic, Nicola Sturgeon may well be welcoming Boris Johnson s trip to Scotland SINCE becoming Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has had historically abysmal personal ratings in Scotland. A large part of the reason for the sustained Yes lead in opinion polls is almost certainly the coinciding of Nicola Sturgeon s unprecedented popularity during the pandemic with the emergence of a Westminster leader who voters in these parts find both offensive and incompetent. The Conservatives own strategists have suggested that the only way of navigating this state of affairs while keeping the Union intact is to make the PM as invisible as possible, while bringing to the fore the supposedly more palatable Tories such as Rishi Sunak and Ruth Davidson.