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Showing posts with label shankill moaner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shankill moaner. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2007

You are now entering Gay Derry

The past two Friday nights, I've ended up in a gay bar. Fair play to my same-sexed compadres, they do know how to throw a party and keep a bar open a reasonable length of time.

I'm not gay myself, and I have some reservations about the wisdom of attributing the term 'marriage' to a gay union. I'm also not convinced about the necessity for gay people to adopt kids. But these aren't major issues for me. I've got gay friends and we tend to talk about other things.

Mind you, the North of Ireland has rarely been a friendly place for homosexuals, so it is to be welcomed (even if it is hideously garish, dahlings) that 'Free Derry Corner' has been painted pink in support of gay pride week.




Of course, openness to the gay community has not always been the hallmark of all of the North's main political traditions. Who can forget Ian Paisley's campaign over gay rights in the Seventies? (Clue: he wasn't in favour.) Or more recently, his son's expression of personal disgust at gay people?

So it was perhaps not surprising that two posters on Politics.ie decided to imagine what a gay eye for another notorious Northern Irish mural might result in!



St333ve goes for the subtle pastel look above, while Lenster Hauser prefers a more edgy and contemporary vision below!

Saturday, February 10, 2007

The Shankill Moaner


Northern Ireland has sadly lacked a quality news parody website ever since Newton Emerson closed down the late, lamented Portadown News and moved into his journalism career.

Thankfully, the wonderfully monikered Slartibuckfast has come to the rescue with The Shankill Moaner, and its spin-off publication, The Irish Shinner-Dependent, both of which can be found here.

As a taster, I offer you a sample from the latest edition, based on that age-old contemplation of born-again Christians, 'What would Jesus do?'

kick it on kick.ie