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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]