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NI News - Links to news sources thoroughout Northern Ireland.

Ballygobackwards - A satirical alternative look at Northern Ireland and a response to stories making the news.

Abyz News Links: Northern Ireland - Links to newspapers, media, and news sources in a variety of subject areas.

The Portadown News - Satirical news items, taking a poke at life in the province, and more specifically the Portadown area. Includes strong language.

Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission - Provides details of film locations, funding, services and events.

The Impartial Reporter - News and sport in Fermanagh, South Tyrone and border counties of the Republic of Ireland. Also available is a letter page, on-line ordering of selected products, and a facility to display a brief message in the paper and the web site.

Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive - Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.

"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford News and Media Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) News and Media I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had News and Media The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human News and Media Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell News and Media Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry News and Media We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) News and Media Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton News and Media Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler News and Media "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields News and Media When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans News and Media Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) News and Media I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton News and Media I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius News and Media Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) News and Media "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) News and Media Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne News and Media "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) News and Media "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) News and Media
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