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BRITISH POLICY IN NORTH HAS STEPPED BACKWARDS

Posted By: September 03, 2014

Again the noted Belfast commentator pounds away at the core of the problem: negligence by the London Government and “Kenny’s complete indifference to the North.”     “No wonder Martin McGuinness renewed his appeal once again for Dublin and London to take the lead in driving political progress. Fat chance with a British general election next May […]

Anniversary of IRA ceasefire

Posted By: September 02, 2014

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Irish Times. Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Sir, – The time for the congratulatory if not superficial tone of your editorialof August 30th (“The first, faltering steps”), noting the 20th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire, is long since past. We have a right to expect far more of the last 20 years. […]

OUR HISTORY WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER’S HISTORY

Posted By: September 01, 2014

Tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, September 1, 2014. IN 1960 an opera singer called Leonard Warren died during a performance of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino (the power of fate), he had just completed an aria which began “morir, tremenda cosa” which translated means ” to die, a momentus thing.” It struck me […]

Twenty years on, the political process in Northern Ireland is in trouble

Posted By: September 01, 2014

We must fight government inertia and efforts by unionists to roll back the progress we’ve made since the 1994 IRA ceasefire GERRY ADAMS. The Guardian, Sunday 31 August 2014  The Stormont parliament building in Belfast. ‘A process of change needs continuous nurturing to succeed. If it is not going forward, invariably it goes backwards.’ Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty ImagesSunday marked the 20th anniversary of […]

Les Allamby has been announced as the new chief commissioner of the Human Rights Commission.

Posted By: September 01, 2014

Les Allamby is new NI Human Rights Commissioner BBC, NI.1 September 2014  Les Allamby is the new Northern Ireland Human Rights commissioner.He is the fourth person to hold the post, following in the footsteps of Michael O’Flaherty, Monica McWilliams and Brice Dickson. Mr Allamby is a solicitor, a former director of the Law Centre in Northern Ireland and […]

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