Posted By: April 23, 2014
Andersonstown News ( Belfast). Tuesday, April 22, 2014. By Francesca Ryan ALOCAL woman whose mother was gunned down by the British Army in Ballymurphy confronted British Secretary of State Theresa Villiers yesterday over her comments that state murders should be given less emphasis than murders by paramilitaries. Briege Voyle was one of a number […]
Posted By: April 21, 2014
Tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, April 21, 2014 AS ANOTHER easter sunday passes and as various republican groups and splinter organisations complete their commemorations at graveyards across the country, we are treated to the annual gritty blather and blarney from an array of former comrades about the usefulness of “blood sacrifice” and […]
Posted By: April 21, 2014
Martina Purdy. BBC News. Northern Ireland Political Correspondent Belfast is a city in transition, a divided city, divided by walls and divided even by the River Lagan. On the east bank there is a largely unionist population, and on the west, a solidly nationalist and Catholic one, with significant sections of unionists in the north and […]
Posted By: April 19, 2014
NEWTON EMERSON. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, April 19, 2014 Like the queen, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers does not make major statements without the imprimatur of the UK government. So her keynote speech this week means the government believes Stormont must “evolve” towards a “formal opposition” that preserves power-sharing while allowing voters to “remove […]
Posted By: April 19, 2014
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday,April 19, 2014. WHAT used to be the theory of evolution is now scientific fact – living things which do not adapt to environmental change tend to die out. So how, you ask, has Unionism survived? (You can be so insensitive at times.) Since 1609 unionism has remained largely […]