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Away with the fairies

  • Mark Devenport
  • 1 May 07, 03:57 PM

When I arrived at Stormont this morning to cover the visit by the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso I passed a man sitting on the steps. Beside him was a flat cap inside of which there were a number of daisies. "Are you the press?" he enquired. "I am" I replied. "Are you here to cover this?" he asked. "What's this?" I responded.

He explained that he was about to strew flowers at the front door in order to keep folklore traditions alive. I wished him good luck and went on my way.

Further research has identified the flower strewer as Mearns Pollock from Newry. He says May day celebrations were a regular tradition in Ulster in the not too distant past, when people put May flowers on their front doors to pacify the fairy Kingdom. Now the fairies have been pacified, Mr Pollock hopes power sharing will blossom.

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  • At 10:43 AM on 06 May 2007,
  • A.N.Other wrote:

We can all only hope that great things will now STEM from the new Assembly.
We can only hope that the PETALs dont drop off the SPROUTING MLAs who hope to take their BEDS, ( opps, i mean seats) of power on Tuesday. With Willie HAY at the helm the air will surely be filled with the sweet smell of ROSES.
The outgoing Speaker, Eillen Bell, may well be seen sitting on the front steps of Parliament Buildings with a basket filled with flowers singing " WHO WILL BUY MY SWEET RED ROSES, JUST A PENNY A BUNCH ". She may need to to collect more revenue to subsidise the new pay increase for the MLAs.
Who needs Little and Large, Hale and Pace, or even the Chuckle Brothers when ya have Big IAN and Wee Martin to supply all the comedy you could ever wish to have on the 主播大秀. Just dont miss each and every exciting episode or you might miss out on what promises to be a laugh a minute series.
And so now that a new era is upon us lets hope and pray that are kids are never subjected to the fears and dispair many in N.I. had to endure over the past 30 odd years.
I would finally like to wish each and every one of the MLAs the very best of luck for the next 4 years. I have a feeling they just might need it.

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