Posted By: August 08, 2013
Ulster TV. Thursday, 08 August 2013 New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has sent a personal message of support to Belfast lord mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, who was targeted by loyalist protestors at a civic opening in the city earlier this week. The Sinn Féin’s representative was forced to flee the ceremony at a children’s playpark in Woodvale Park […]
Posted By: August 08, 2013
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND. Tuesday, August 6, 2013 The lord mayor of Belfast, Sinn Fein’s Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, has been jostled and heckled by loyalist protesters at the re-opening of a park in the Woodvale district of north Belfast. He was escorted away from the trouble by the police and the ceremony was cancelled. The police say […]
Posted By: August 07, 2013
BRITAIN CANNOT TAKE MORAL HIGH GROUND ON ZIMBABWE Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, August 7, 2013. BRITISH foreign secretary William Hague says he is ‘gravely concerned’ about Robert Mugabe’s re-election in Zimbabwe. That’s par for the course. Hardly a day goes by without Hague condemning or deploring some event somewhere in the world. […]
Posted By: August 06, 2013
New call for answers over the scandal of Northern Ireland’s “hooded men” BARRY McCAFFREY . The Detail ( Belfast).Tuesday, August 6, 2013 THE Irish government has been asked to investigate claims that the British government deliberately withheld the existence of a secret base used to subject 14 internees to what was declared as inhumane and degrading treatment in Northern […]
Posted By: August 06, 2013
We spent the better part of that year, from midsummer1980 until midsummer 1981, in Taiwan. As United States Foreign Service officers and representatives of several other government organizations, we were enrolled in a total-immersion language course that would raise our Chinese (Mandarin) to a level fitting us for future assignments among Chinese-speaking populations. Our classes […]