Republican News · Thursday 21 December 2000

[An Phoblacht]

1. c) The Orange Order sent Grand Master and South Belfast MP Martin Smyth.

2. d) The Flood Tribunal although the Dublin West chancer would at home in a game show.

3.d) The Royal Irish Regiment - the UDR in drag.

4. a) Across a pub counter in Inchicore

5. b) Twink.

6. d) Labour TD Dick Spring.

7. c) Pope John Paul II received a Christmas tree at the Vatican from jackbooting Jorg.

8. a) British Home Secretary Jack Straw.

9. d) 1,500 soldiers have been booted out on drugs charges - not one for killing a nationalist.

10. c) The all-singing, all-dancing Gene Kelly.

11. b) Brendan O'Carroll, who once starred in an election video for Democratic Left.

12. Tory-supporting Thatcherites Jim Davidson and Peter Stringfellow. The latter owns Stringfellow's.

13. In the luxury Dalkey pad of Gavin O'Reilly, Chief Executive of the Evening Herald, which perhaps helps explain its anti-republican bent.

14. The Vicar of Dibley.

15. South Down DUP Assembly member Jim `Jumbo' Wells.

16. Manchester United supremo Sir Alex Ferguson.

17. MI5 ex-agent David Shayler

18. Martin McGartland (`in hiding' in England).

19. Martin McGartland again. (Well done, Northumbria Police.)

20. Telephone snoops at Britain's GCHQ spy centre.

21. Charlie Haughey's long-standing lover, Terry Keane

22. Sir John Betjeman, a former press attaché at the British Embassy in 1940.

23. The `Big 5' nuclear nations - including Peter Mandelson's Britain.

24. The British Government.

25. Paisleyite Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sammy Wilson - what a bum.


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