Slumdog Millionaire maybe!

Hugely enjoyable movie, but the lesson for me is how people are shaped by their circumstances and experiences and the impact of co-incidence or chance in the lives of human beings, you might be married and have a family with someone because they happened to be at the next desk at work or in the next seat during a lecture once, but for me it's not about IQ or physical beauty, it has more to do with how we are shaped rather than how we are created.

I often get into trouble for what people consider my strange political views, and I am simply letting people know how I became shaped by circumstances to form those views, even though I am somewhat disillusioned by politics these days because I find the party I always supported now stand for nothing, I thought they stood for civil rights and social equality but now they are against Lisbon and appear to stand for nothing at all except whinging and complaining about everything.

I was 6 years old when I saw a NEWSFLASH on BBC ran out to get my mum and dad, they came indoors and I will always remember my mother in tears as she watched people she lived close to (and knew some) carried away wrapped in sheets with blood pouring from their bodies.

I was 15 and laid up for 4 months with a fractured femur (football surprisingly enough) when Bobby Sands and his 9 comrades died at the intransigent hands of Margaret Thatcher.



I was 17 when I got my copy of U2's "war" album and heard a song about peace and how talk changes everything, but like Cork players, the British Govt and Paisley's DUP were simply interested in preserving the Status Quo (we have the power) and would talk to no one.. And the only way to get them to the table was through the means of bombs and guns... and it worked, ( if you don't believe me read the story of Nelson Mandela, or remember Gaza this Christmas) but it also explains why the Omagh and Antrim and Armagh occurances in the last few years are just WRONG, I have no idea what these blackguards and thugs are really trying to achieve, but I do know that when Hugh Orde invited the MI5 specialist surv unit of British soldiers back into this country, he legitimised the Real thugs and gave them an excuse to carry out acts that the majority of this country despise and thought were in our past, and yes it is in our past, and why Hugh Orde and the real thugs could not leave it there, and felt compelled to resurrect the troubles I have no idea, but hell it is frustrating, we all thought the nationalist community had achieved civil rights and social equality, but it's obvious that the Real IRA and the PSNI (via Hugh Orde) don't think that those 10 years of ceasefire and talks meant anything.

It's sad really, but hopefully the Martin McGuinness's and Peter Robinson's of this world will engage and help sort this out, it's only a small thing in history, but 3 lives are gone and many children will lack a fathers.......

Let's follow the words of Bono and the Edge..... listen up Real IRA and listen up Hugh Orde....... NO MORE!