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Diane Dodds’ letter to US politicians tells of murder bid ordeal

Posted By: March 18, 2014

BY REBECCA BLACK – MONDAY,  MARCH 17, 2014 2014 Diane Dodds has issued an emotional plea to US Congressmen to listen to victims of republican terrorism in a letter in which she tells of how the IRA targeted her husband as their son lay ill in hospital. The DUP MEP wrote to members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, after US politicians […]

Catholics are most pro-Yes religious group, claims academic

Posted By: March 17, 2014

    Gerry Braiden Senior reporter. Herald Scotland. Monday 17 March 2014 SCOTS of an Irish-Catholic background are the most likely religious grouping to vote for independence in this year’s referendum, according to an eminent academic.     Professor Tom Devine, Scotland’s leading historian, said there had been a silent revolution within the Irish Catholic population since […]

Theresa Villiers’ ‘on the runs’ speech deepens political impasse: she is now part of the problem

Posted By: March 16, 2014

‘Theresa Villiers set out a British and unionist view that there is a single narrative of the past’ DECLAN KEARNEY. Belfast Telegraph. MARCH  14, 2014   Theresa Villiers’ speech on March 7 announced much more than the British Government’s decision to end the ‘on the run’ administrative scheme.     She set out a British and unionist […]

HOW THE DUBLIN GOVERNMENT DESTROYED A BRAVE IRISH SOLDIER : CAPTAIN KELLY

Posted By: March 16, 2014

‘If it happened to us, it could happen to you’ – a family seeking truth from government  THE DETAIL.MARCH  3, 2014   AT the launch of its Legacy project, The Detail shed fresh light on a major controversy from the earliest days of the Troubles: the Dublin Arms Trial of 1970. Irish authorities consistently denied wrongdoing over the episode. But […]

Unionists need to up their game to be heard by US …

Posted By: March 16, 2014

 Liam Clarke .Belfast Telegraph.March 13, 2014     First Minister Peter Robinson with President Barack Obama and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the White House on St Patrick’s Day, 2011 BY LIAM CLARKE – 13 MARCH 2014   Richard Haass hasn’t gone away, you know. He will be back, not to chair long-term talks, but to put […]

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