Fifth Column xmas quiz answers

1. GAA shirts from the club Eoghan plays for, Kevin Lynch GAC, named after H-Block Hunger Striker Kevin Lynch.
2. The Green Party’s Patricia McKenna.
3. “I could no more fancy Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers.”
4. The inimitable Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan.
5. Sarah Palin.
6. Bart Simpson in a St Patrick’s Day episode of The Simpsons also featuring a punch-up between The Hulk and The Thing (Green versus Orange, geddit?).
7. Diamond Dan.
8. Garryowen LOL is for soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment and the Ulster Defence Regiment.
9. Gay Byrne.
10. The mercurial Eoghan Harris.
11. Love Ulster leader Willie Frazer, unionist activist and head of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives.
12. Fine Gael Dublin TD Leo Varadkar.
13. General Franco. Fine Gael’s favourite dictator had dispatched bribes all over Europe to swing the vote against the Derryman, whose song was favourite to win for Cliff, and push him into second place behind Spain.
14. Better breast cancer services.
15. ‘Duncan’ (or HMS Duncan, to give it its full title) is a British Royal Navy warship, a Type-45 destroyer which the Royal Navy says will bring the people of Belfast “prestige and goodwill around the world”.
16. The British Queen Mother (deceased).
17. Sir Edward Carson.
18. The US mortgage market in turmoil. Osama Bin Laden had obviously seen those catchy song and dance ads by Howard for the Halifax on his cave cable TV.
19. MI6. Aggie worked alongside MI5 “and other sections” of the murder machine in the Six Counties from 1975.
20. Health Minister Mary Harney, former leader of the PDs.
21. Mobile firing ranges on articulated lorry chassis, nicknamed ‘shoot and scoot’.
22. Colm Meaney, Miles O’Brien in Star Trek and star of Roddy Doyle’s films and much more.
23. DUP Minister Nigel Dodds MP.
24. Because his Scottish Catholic mother objects to him being forced to swear an oath of allegiance to an English queen whose sectarian ‘closed shop’ bars Catholics from succeeding her.
25. DUP MP Iris Robinson, Peter Robinson’s First Lady.