A very strange commercial idea has found its way to the
market, thanks to the Superquinn supermarket chain.
They are selling a range of luxury handmade chocolates
based on ``inspirational Irish women''.
Lady Wilde has become a ``white chocolate rose filled
with a light, fluffy, sweet vanilla cream and
complemented by gianduja''. Queen Maeve is a ``wickedly
rich, dark chocolate filled with an extra bitter sweet
ganache''. Irish women as gianduja and ganache.
Of interest to republicans is the chocolate designed in
honour of Constance Markievicz. It is described as a
``milk chocolate rose filled with a tangy orange and
chocolate centre''.
Weird.
One of our readers in England, Cormac Murphy, writes
about our front page of a couple of weeks ago, which
featured photographs of David Trimble and Martin Smyth.
``After staring at them for several seconds,'' he says,
``the letters of their names began moving around in a
very strange way. David Trimble became `Mad Brit Devil'
and Martin Smyth became `Mr Shittyman'''.
d now, a prize. It may be only February but I can
confidently give the award for the Armchair
Revolutionary of the Year to Malcolm Byrne, education
officer for the Union of Students in Ireland, who was
commenting on why students aren't as radical as they
used to be. He said: ``It is possible to be radical in
thought processes without necessarily being radical in
action''.
Have you ever noticed how the RUC invariably turn their
backs on loyalist protestors and face towards
republicans? I'm sure there couldn't possibly be
anything sinister in it. It must be a completely
natural state of affairs if you're in the RUC. These
two photographs were taken on Sunday as Sinn Féin were
holding a rally at Belfast City Hall. Isn't it great to
see such happy, smiling people?
Apologies to anyone who has recently been trying to
contact us via e-mail. A problem with our system meant
we were unable to access our mail for about ten days.
So, if anyone would like to buy us a couple of
super-duper new Apple Macs, we can guarantee an even
more perfect paper every week.
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