The UVF in east Belfast has been behind much of the street riots connected to the union flag dispute at Belfast city hall.
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While the decision disappointed some, particularly those trumpeting the charismatic claims of Yousafzai, the decision marks something of a return to the tradition of honouring work directly connected to disarmament, after the EU in 2012 and the even more controversial prize to Barack Obama in 2009.
I'm not sure why it connected with so many people.
As for the alleged link back to Scottish health spending, while total block grants from Whitehall are indeed connected to overall English public service spending, Holyrood has sweeping autonomy over where the money goes.
It would be only one of a series of moments in which all those connected with Falkirk would experience the realisation that the biggest day of the season would belong to the other fellow.
"If our business community doesn't have its expectations (met), the ones they had a couple of years ago when we were going to be connected next after our neighbouring city Armidale, with all this infrastructure already in the ground, then I think that that political landscape may well change".
My strongest memory is of one early-evening phonecall: for at least three minutes, the voice at the other end insisted I was connected to the "Man of Mystery", and tied me in knots, before I swore in frustration, and Thorgerson wearily played it straight, wondering when the deadline was, and how the book was going.
I paid richly to keep it connected to the internet, so I didn't have to beg for Wi-Fi in strange places, as I did with the iPod and laptop.
