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'If you slag everybody, you're kind of slagging nobody' - Cartoonist creates trading cards for Protestants and Catholics

They say politics is a game, but an artist from Portrush has designed a set of trading cards, based on what he might call “typical” Catholics and Protestants.   Fergus Boylan has been drawing sketches about Northern Ireland for papers and websites, but his latest venture’s success has come of something as a surprise.   From the Protestant café owner to the Catholic goth, characters from most towns in the North are given scores on their craic, strengths, bitterness and smarts... Image: X via @infiniteguff

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14.45 18 Oct 2023


'If you slag everybody, you're kind of slagging nobody' - Cartoonist creates trading cards for Protestants and Catholics


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14.45 18 Oct 2023


They say politics is a game, but an artist from Portrush has designed a set of trading cards, based on what he might call “typical” Catholics and Protestants.  

Fergus Boylan has been drawing sketches about Northern Ireland for papers and websites, but his latest venture’s success has come of something as a surprise.  

From the Protestant café owner to the Catholic goth, characters from most towns in the North are given scores on their craic, strengths, bitterness and smarts...

Image: X via @infiniteguff


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