Author Archives: Fergal McGuckin

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties and some web gremlins, some heavily unedited research for this week’s blog managed to publish itself as Blog 9! If you were one of the bemused readers to come across this, I apologise! Please ignore! The full, edited version which was mysteriously wiped, will take a little longer now toContinue reading “Apologies! Blog 9 will be coming soon!”

Welcome back to Blog 8 of my Weekly Digest. The weekly roundup of selected political news from Northern Ireland, UK and the US. There’s plenty to pack in to this week’s instalment, again, so let’s not waste any time and dive right in there to those shark infested political waters, if we dare? Edwin PootsContinue reading “Blog 8!”

Well, that week just flew in! Despite it only seeming like yesterday since I signed off on the last blog, so much has happened in the world of politics that I seem to have enough material for several blogs! I think it was Harold Wilson who said that a week was a long time inContinue reading “Blog 7!”

BLOG 6! For those of you still prepared to indulge me in my weekly bout of spleen venting, welcome back! For any newcomers, welcome to McGuck’s weird Weekly Digest world! This is my slightly acerbic take on this week’s political events, shenanigans and goings on in NI, UK and the USA! So, buckle up andContinue reading

Welcome back to Blog 5 of my Weekly Digest! And what a week it has been! I’m afraid it’s mostly about Covid on the domestic political front this week. There’s no escaping it! However, first let’s begin with something that’s much more painfully familiar to us – the DUP and SF failing to agree onContinue reading “Weekly Digest – Blog 5!”

Hi everyone, and welcome back to McGuckin’s Weekly Digest, Blog 4! Plenty to get our teeth into this week, so what’s on the menu, I hear you ask? As usual, we’ll sample the starters in good ole Norn Iron, before meandering our way across the Irish Sea for our main course, then finally winding upContinue reading “McGuckin’s Weekly Digest – Blog 4!”

Welcome back to Blog 3 of McGuck’s Weekly Digest, and what a week it has been in the world of Politics! We have had a veritable smorgasbord of headlines to choose from in N.I., U.K. and U.S. politics, but I’ll try my best to pick out the ones that have exercised/annoyed/entertained/disturbed me the most! NotContinue reading “McGuck’s Weekly Digest – Blog 3!”

Hello again everyone and welcome back to my weekly politics blog. As with last week’s inaugural blog, I will begin at the parochial parish pump that is Norn Iron politics! And it doesn’t get any more parochial than a good, old fashioned dispute about FLEGS! We do love a good fleg row here, I mustContinue reading “McGuck’s Weekly Digest. Blog 2”

A weekly round-up of politics related news stories that have caught the ever critical and cynical eye of Mr McGuckin at Lagan College. Welcome to my new politics blog entry, where I basically give my tuppence worth about political news stories or events in NI, UK and the US that have risen above the media dirgeContinue reading “McGuck’s Weekly Digest! Blog 1”