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Parades, peace talks and the lessons learned

Posted By: March 09, 2014

The Legacy.Febuary 24, 2014 Funded by the Community Relations Council, 104 of my colleagues were falling down round me. THE battle to defuse parades disputes in Belfast has provided lessons that have been used in trouble spots around the world. The Detail’s Barry McCaffrey examines one of the past successes, at a time when some fear that the tension caused by dissident republican […]

Saint Patrick’s Day Traditions

Posted By: March 08, 2014

http://www.irishnation.com THE WEARING OF THE GREEN The tradition of wearing Shamrock to celebrate Saint Patrick seems to date from the seventeenth or eighteenth century. This was a very turbulent time in Irish history. The suppression of the Gaelic way of life by the ruling British invaders resulted in many aspects of the Catholic religion in […]

ISSUE NOT WHO KNEW WHAT, BUT WHERE DO WE GO NOW?

Posted By: March 05, 2014

ALLISON MORRIS. IRISH NEWS( BELFAST). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2014. WHO did, didn’t or pretended not to know about the ‘letters of comfort’ giving around 200 IRA men and women the green light to come home has dominated the news for the last week. That most of them were already living in plain sight, making no […]

DUP POSTURING ENSURES NO TRUTH AND NO JUSTICE

Posted By: March 05, 2014

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, March 6, 2014. HE came down the steps at Stormont Castle with a carefully chosen coterie of accomplices: Depooty Dawds, the leader of the DUP MPs, Lord Morrow, Diane Dodds – in case people had forgotten she is standing for Europe – and Michelle McIlveen for their task? To […]

British and Irish governments’ ‘silence’ over evidence of collusion in killings criticised

Posted By: March 05, 2014

 Author and campaigner address NUI Galway Irish Centre for Human Rights Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in February 1989. Photograph: Pacemaker   • Irish Times. Wednesday.Mar 5, 2014 The “silence” of the British and Irish governments over evidence of alleged RUC and British army collusion in 120 killings on both sides […]

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