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BRIT DOUBLE STANDARD

Posted By: July 24, 2013

ONE-EYED APPROACH TO VIOLENCE FOOLS NO-ONE Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, July 24, 2013 MONDAY week ago the UVF threw four blast bombs at police from a street in east Belfast. Earlier so-called dissident republicans threw a nail bomb at police on the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne. The differing reaction to the two incidents perfectly illustrates […]

WHAT HAS PANDERING TO THE UVF ACHIEVED?

Posted By: July 20, 2013

WHAT HAS PANDERING TO THE UVF ACHIEVED? Newt Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, July 20, 2013 WHAT did the PSNI’s top brass get for six months of pandering to the UVF [  Ulster Volunteer Force, the Protestant /Unionist paramilitary oranization]? Four blast bombs thrown at its officers in east Belfast would appear to be […]

ADVICE FOR HAAS

Posted By: July 20, 2013

WELCOME TO PANTOMIME NI – MAGIC WAND ESSENTIAL Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, July 20, 2013 Dear Richard Haass, WELCOME to the europe’s longest running pantomime. (Since pantomime is rare in the US, let us explain – it is a musical comedy which often includes a fairy godmother, who grants everyone exactly what […]

ORANGE ORDER’S DAY OF RECKONING HAS COME

Posted By: July 18, 2013

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, June17, 2013 THOMAS Babington Macaulay was a 19th century English historian, politician and writer. in the 1840s he was MP for Edinburgh. in 1847, after he had made a speech supporting an increase in the annual grant to Maynooth, the Tories whipped up Orangemen into a campaign of sectarian […]

ARRESTS FOR INCITEMENT AN AVENUE WORTH EXPLORING

Posted By: July 18, 2013

  Newton Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, July 18, 2013 THE PSNI has accused the Orange Order of “reckless” and “inflammatory” statements leading up to this year’s Twelfth violence. During the flag protests, Chief Constable Matt Baggott was vocal about the tragedy of vulnerable young people acquiring criminal records for rioting. The PSNI can square this circle by […]

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