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DEL.ICIO.USPutting the governor’s visit to Northern Ireland in Gaelic context
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You’re ignoring Gov. Sonny Perdue’s historic trade visit to Northern Ireland, the blogger complained.
On Tuesday, the Georgia government and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle became the first senior public officials to meet in joint fashion with Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, top leaders of a newly formed, home-rule government that weds Protestant and Catholic.
The fact that the two Irish gentlemen did not shoot each other in front of strangers is apparently considered important in some circles.
“I’m getting fed up with the local media,” the writer snarled today.
But not at us. This was an Irish blogger, upset that the local paper had given more ink two other events.
One was the case of the two missing government laptops, which were later found locked safely in a cupboard.
The other was an article in which Mr. McGuinness, the deputy first minister and a Catholic, encouraged anyone with knowledge about the location of the grave of a British captain — who was shot by the IRA and secretly buried in 1977 — to come forward.
Perspective is everything.
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By Keith
June 21, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this
I had no idea this had happened! I’m usually a regular reader of The Bog Standard Blog. This is probably something BBC NI should have picked up on. They put alot more effort into the visit from the First Minister of Scotland at the start of the week.