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South abandoned North says ex-chaplain

Posted By: November 04, 2014

  On this day November 4, 1945 Irish News.( Belfast).Tuesday, November 4, 2014 “As long as partition lasts, the unionists of Northern Ireland will feel that hey are sitting on a volcano.” So said Rev. T. Duggan of Cork, a former senior chaplain of the British forces stationed in Northern Ireland, when he addressed a […]

Echo of PM’s sectarian head count On this day. November 3, 1945

Posted By: November 04, 2014

 Irish    News    (Belfast).    Monday,    November    3,    2014    A    statement    made    some    years    ago    by    Mr.    J.M.    Andrews    [former    prime    minister    of     Northern   Ireland]    while    minister    of    labor    that    out    of    the    33    porters    employed    at    Stormont    only    one    was    a    Catholic,    and    that    he    was    only    temporary,    was    recalled    at    Stormont    yesterday.       […]

Fermanagh priest on partition problem

Posted By: October 31, 2014

 “On this day: October 1945.” Edited by Eamon PhoenixIrish News.  Thursday, October 30, 2014IN an article in The Irish News on this day, the Rev Thomas Maguire, parish priest of Newtownbutler, Co Fermanagh, stressed the need for a united Nationalist front to oppose Partition. Monaghan-born Fr Maguire had emerged by the 1930s as a vocal opponent of Partition and supporter of de Valera. By the early […]

Peter Hain says David Cameron ‘not engaged enough’ with Northern Ireland

Posted By: October 30, 2014

BBC.NI. October 29, 2014   A former Northern Ireland Secretary has accused the prime minister of not engaging “closely or energetically enough” with Stormont politicians. Labour’s Peter Hain said “constant care and attention” by David Cameron was needed. Talks aimed at resolving difficulties among the five parties in the devolved government are under way in […]

John Kerry sends ‘fellow would-be president’ to Northern Ireland

Posted By: October 25, 2014

 Simon Carswell. Irish Times. Saturday, October 25,2014 Gary Hart, the former US senator and two-time contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, is the latest in a long line of high-profile former politicians tapped by the US’s State Department to help bring long-eluded peace to a troubled part of the world. On Tuesday secretary of state […]

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