Posted By: September 25, 2013
” … because unionists have yet to accept that the old order is gone, they are locked into complaint about every manifestation of change. The Orange Order still ask why they cannot walk where they choose. Unionists demand respect for unionist/British culture, but will never tell their people sharing Stormont requires reciprocal respect for nationalist flags, emblems, dates…” The Belfast columnist provides insight […]
Posted By: September 22, 2013
Another Belfast columnist casts a cold eye. TALKS WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER BLAND, VAGUE COMPROMISE Patrick Murphy.Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, September 21, 2013 PREPARE yourselves for the next milestone in our long and repetitive history – the Christmas Eve Agreement. (Think of it as the Good Friday Agreement with decorations.) As we head into an autumn of mists […]
Posted By: September 19, 2013
The Belfast columnist casts a cold eye on Haass Talks TALKS MORE HAASS-LE THAN THEY ARE WORTH Braian Feeney.Irish Nws( Belfast). Wednesday, September 18, 2013. YOU may not have seen this because it didn’t get much coverage but last week Richard Haass laid out his agenda as ‘dealing with parades, dealing with flags and emblems, dealing with […]
Posted By: September 16, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 1963, the 50th. Anniversary of the notorious Ku Klux Kan bombing of the16th. Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four African-American girls were killed in one of the most evil incidents in the Civil Rights struggle. As if to remind the world of similar hatred and racism, the Northern Ireland vesrsion of […]
Posted By: September 14, 2013
Haass’s Herculean task after summer shambles William Scholes. Irish News(Belfast). Thursday, September 13, 2013 AS they sashayed down a New york sidewalk for the television cameras this week, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness cut quite a dash. It wasn’t quite Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse but with a little […]