Posted By: June 30, 2014
TOM KELLY. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, June 30, 2014 SO MATT Baggott has gone. The chief constable who came to Northern Ireland on a wing and a prayer has, like Frasier, left the building. Personally, I won’t miss him. He always seemed like a fish out of water, albeit a very nice fish. His departure […]
Posted By: June 28, 2014
Eamonn McCann. Irish Times.Thursday, June 26, 2014, 13:02 Vincent Browne emerges with credit from the Gerry Conlon story. So do Tom McGurk, the late Mary Holland, David McKittrick and John Mulcahy. There may be other Irish journalists who should be mentioned, but names don’t spring to mind. In the years following the 1975 conviction of […]
Posted By: June 28, 2014
Large crowd at funeral of Gerry Conlon in west Belfast Conlon spent 14 years in prison wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombing One of the Birmingham Six, Paddy Hill wipes a tear as the coffin of Gerry Conlon is carried into St. Peter’s Cathedral for his funeral Mass in Belfast today. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty […]
Posted By: June 28, 2014
By: Bryan T. McMahon,publisher, The Ponchatoula Times Article published in The Ponchatoula Times and in The Independence Times Date: June 27, 2014 at 2:56:57 PM EDT Fr. Sean McManus an equal opportunity flail when it comes to international injustice. “My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland . . . and the Holy Land,” […]
Posted By: June 28, 2014
“….Knowing all this … why do modern, thinking Unionists vote for a party with nutty ideas dominated by a tiny sect of hot gospellers and bible-bashers who comprise fewer than 0.1 per cent of Protestants here? [ the ]tiny sect, the Free Presbyterians, with a total of 10,000 adherents, dominates the par Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, […]