Posted By: September 30, 2014
Fionnuala O’Connor. Irish News ( Belfast). Tuesday, September 30, 2014 INSULTS and abusive language as a leadership tactic in politics: best inside party meetings, away from microphones and pestiferous scribbling rodents, yes? Fine when mocking a few malcontents but self-destructive, surely, if your authority is in tatters and they really are coming to get […]
Posted By: September 30, 2014
Kevin Raftery .The Sentinel.( Stoke on Trent, England). September 29, 2014 The fancy interior of the Grand Hotel in Brighton today: One wonders whether or not Maggie Thatcher was tinkling on that old grand piano on the eve of October 12th 1984. More seriously, in this very hotel IRA volunteer Patrick Magee had the temerity to book a […]
Posted By: September 30, 2014
Tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, September 29, 2014. ONE-TIME Democratic presidential contender Adlai Stevenson once said of his opponents, “I offer them a bargain, if they stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.” Over the past number of months but particularly during the silly season, various elements […]
Posted By: September 27, 2014
NEWTON EMERSON. IRISH NEWS ( BELFAST). SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 DESPITE what a vengeful Edwin Poots might claim, Peter Robinson’s reshuffle is not the act of the leader preparing to step down. It is a ruthless housekeeping exercise ahead of all-party, all-encompassing talks that could have forced open DUP splits and threatened a DUP […]
Posted By: September 27, 2014
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, September 27, 2114. IF Stormont were to receive additional devolved powers, what would our politicians do with them? In view of the slight inconvenience that Stormont cannot use the powers it has, you may find that question somewhat less relevant to your daily existence than the outcome […]