Guinness Cheese
Having spent most of my St. Patrick's Days in the USA recently I didn't know what to do with myself yesterday. I sauntered out into Belfast city centre, winding my way between the green hatted, tricolour clad revellers and bumped into a couple of employees of a well known city centre delicatessen handing out complimentary portions of Guinness Cheese. Guinness Cheese - what more could you want? I imagine there will be plenty of Guinness on tap and plenty of cheesiness on display when Barack Obama arrives in Moneygall in May.
(P.S. Disgusted in Derry - is your real name Joe Biden? When the US Vice President had to pause during his speech because the audience was chatting, he ad libbed "must be a bunch of Englishmen talking back there". Sounded just like you...)
I got a bit confused by Given that the Deputy First Minister had previously talked about the "first full uninterrupted Assembly term" it sounded like he wanted Obama here, now - maybe even before one minute past midnight on Friday - which is the start of the election recess. It seems likelier that the hope is that the President might touch down during his own US term of office.
Whilst Mr McGuinness was talking about terms, Dawn Purvis was in D.C. talking about terminations - part of a delegation seeking to raise awareness of what it referred to as "Ireland's draconian abortion laws". Ms Purvis won the backing of the US Catholics For Choice organisation - but it's fair to say that others within the Irish American community will take a radically different view.
The East Belfast MLA is due to be a guest on the Politics Show on Sunday talking about a report on educational disadvantage and working class Protestants. I am hoping to be joined on Inside Politics by the Secretary of State Owen Paterson who hinted, during a speech in Washington, that he may be ready to publish his long awaited consultation paper on devolving Corporation Tax, perhaps within days.
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