digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/20/theres-no-one-as-irish-as-dave-cameron/’;
digg_title = ‘There’s no-one as Irish as Dave Cameron’;
digg_bodytext = ‘This from the Corrigan Brothers should lighten your spirits. I don’t quite know what to say.  Hat tip, as ever, to Iain Dale.

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digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/08/two-lessons-in-politics-and-government-from-ireland/’;
digg_title = ‘Two lessons in politics and government from Ireland’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Irlande, Nul Points
First the mildly funny story.  It emerged this morning that since 2003, more than 18,000 people cases of serious road traffic offences have been brought to court in Ireland and convicted of.  Of those, it would appear that just over [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/28/day-2-and-3-the-diary-of-stephen-nelson-bickerstaffe-northern-ireland-office-hillsborough-unit/’;
digg_title = ‘Day 2 and 3: The Diary of Stephen Nelson Bickerstaffe, Northern Ireland Office Hillsborough Unit’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Tuesday, 26 December 2009
4.15am
Castle woken by intrusion alarm, as Lord Alderdice tries to ram-raid his way through the security cordon in a JCB.  Eventually talked down by David Forde, and was immediately tazered by angry [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/27/stormont_diary/’;
digg_title = ‘The diary of Stephen Nelson Bickerstaffe, Northern Ireland Office Hillsborough Unit, Part One’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Monday 25 January,
8.15am
Got phone call from Perm Sec’s office, telling me to get to Aldergrove airport and make sure there is no red carpet.  DUP don’t look amused that my tie is green. Apparently thery’ve been up [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/25/two-morons-walk-into-hillsborough-castle/’;
digg_title = ‘Two morons walk into Hillsborough Castle…’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The title should presage a joke, but, to be honest, the impact of the idiot leaders of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom flying to Hillsborough today was nothing short of sickening, as each sought to use the situation in Northern Ireland [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/21/introducing-ar-dheis-a-modest-proposal-for-a-right-of-centre-thinktank-in-ireland/’;
digg_title = ‘Introducing ‘ar dheis’. A modest proposal for a right-of-centre thinktank in Ireland.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘This website is primarily about UK politics, and rarely forays into the politics of Ireland.  There’s a simple enough reason for this; the blogger doesn’t feel that there’s a significantly developed school of political thought in Ireland [...]

So, how does someone with an irrational, childish, offensive, misanthropic and uncouth national antipathy for both France and Ireland go about deciding who to jeer more?

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/14/press-release-from-hse-on-drumm-bonus/’;
digg_title = ‘Press Release from HSE on Drumm Bonus’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Glorious leader receives trifling bonus payment from joyous populace
Professor Brendan Drumm, Glorious and Feted leader of the Health Service Executive, has expressed his satisfaction at the small token of gratitude bestowed upon him by the people of Ireland.
Professor Drumm received some €70,000, enough [...]

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digg_title = ‘Lisbon whataboutery’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery.  It is.  I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t have nightmares.
I had three strange conversations about Lisbon today, from [...]

come and see Ireland, come and see the way an EU referendum is handled, and consider whether the people here really are free to vote in a fair referendum. But don’t say you weren’t warned what to expect.