Posted By: July 03, 2013
Ray O’ Hanlon. Irish News(Belfast). Wednesday, July 3, 2013 The United States Senate last week passed its comprehensive immigration reform bill. This is big news. It’s big because (a) the bill is very important, and (b) the Senate actually did something – and might have even been chewing gum at the same time as […]
Posted By: July 03, 2013
Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast),Wednesday, June 3, 2013 FOR understandable reasons most of the publicity about petrol bombs flying over interface fencing is focused on east Belfast’s Short Strand. It’s not the only place where there is tension, of course. A couple of weeks ago someone threw a petrol bomb into the small Protestant […]
Posted By: June 29, 2013
CAPITOL HILL. Saturday, June 29, 2013 — Irish-Americans are loving the IRA novel by Fr. Sean Mc Manus: Mac Ireland: Fight For Irish Freedom. The well known Catholic priest — president of the Capitol Hill-based Irish national Caucus and Holy Land Principles, Inc. — explained: ” Today I had a telephone call from and […]
Posted By: June 29, 2013
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 29, 2013. The ritual humiliation of the SDLP is almost complete. If the assembly passes the planning bill, the party’s sole minister, Alex Attwood, will be in charge of only half a Stormont department. The other half of the Department of the Environment (DoE) will be controlled by […]
Posted By: June 26, 2013
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, June 26, 2013 WHEN Gerry Kelly finally managed to make contact with the policeman in charge of the operation that facilitated last Friday’s Orange march between the exclusively nationalist New Lodge and Carrick Hill districts the initial result was less than satisfactory. When Kelly remonstrated about the PSNI Land […]