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Michael Carchrie Campbell

Celebrating our Saints: it’s one way of celebrating our European identity

May 12, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

We all know how much we in Ireland like to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, coming up soon is the Breton equivalent: Gouel Erwan, St Yves. Well this year, the Breton Association in Ireland has chosen to celebrate it in Belfast. Breizh Eire, association des Bretons d’Irlande a choisi de faire cette année la Gouel Erwan […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 1 Comment

Following this afternoon’s vote in the debate on the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, Christopher Lovell has expressed his disappointment at Tim Farron’s “abstention” today. It seems that Mr Lovell who lives in Leeds, not in Tim’s constituency, feels that because there is no vote recorded by Tim Farron in today’s […]

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£120k needed to stop Jewish religious silk hangings from leaving the UK

April 6, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

Ed Vaizey MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has placed a temporary export bar on the seven hangings which lasts until 20 May 2013 but may be extended to 20 August 2013 if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase them at the recommended price of £120,000 […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 1 Comment

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results and more tests…

August 11, 2011 By hivblogger Leave a Comment

It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were […]

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Sickened and disgusted: Woolwich attack

May 23, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

The news that a man has been murdered in full view of witnesses on the streets of Woolwich makes me feel really sick. That the man killed was a member of HM Forces seems to make it worse. It certainly looks like an attack on the State in some form. Those of us who grew […]

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saying #yesinmay together when the UK said NO #mccamf11

May 7, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 3 Comments

Yesterday, as it became clear that the Referendum on the Voting System had not been a YES, Andrew and I said YES in May once more to each other in a very special way: I solemnly promise that I will protect you, N., my brother, with my utmost care, that I will honour and cherish […]

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Join the Mullans in 7 days and say #Yes2AV

April 28, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

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the problems with FPTP – animal kingdom style

March 12, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

C. G. P. Grey has produced an enjoyable video about the problems of First Past the Post (FPTP) voting systems. With the referendum on the voting system in the United Kingdom coming up on 5th May, it would be useful if people watched this to see why our current voting system is so bad. If […]

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Filed Under: Fairer Votes Tagged With: #no2av, #yes2av, #yes2avbelfast, #yesinmay, Campaigns and Elections, First Past the Post, FPTP, Member of Parliament, Plurality voting system, politics, Voting system

join me in making our MPs work harder

February 17, 2011 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

Michael Carchrie Campbell supports the Yes campaign for May 5th referendum

Following Royal Assent to the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Act earlier today, we now have the referendum to make the change to a fairer voting system set for May 5th. The Yes campaign needs as much help as possible to ensure that the real messages are put out to all of us in the […]