Wise beyond my years?!!
Last night I attended the inaugural Slugger Political Awards at W5 in Belfast’s Odyssey complex. Three Thousand Versts had been nominated as one of the three contenders in the Political Blogger category . In the end the honour went to North Antrim Local Interest List , which satisfied very neatly the criterion Mick Fealty ascribed to any potential winner in the award’s accompanying film. NALIL doggedly worried at the Giant's Causeway / Seymour Sweeney issue last year until it came to prominence in the local media. The Causeway / Sweeney fiasco provided another winner. Sinn Féin’s Daithi Mckay won the ‘Up and Coming’ gong, despite his relative anonymity beyond commenting on the affair. Nonetheless it was a good night, with some interesting discussion taking place in the bar afterwards. It was good also to meet some readers and put names to the faces of several Slugger commenters. Given the competition, I was very pleased to be nominated for the blogger award. The synopsis...