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NO FOLLOW-UP SUBSTANCE TO OUR PEACE PROCESS

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 […]

New inquests for men ‘killed by secret British Army unit’

Posted By: September 26, 2014

  JONATHAN BROWN  . The Independent ( London).Thurday, September 24, 2014 Fresh inquests are to be held into the deaths of two men alleged to have been shot dead by members of a secret elite unit of the British Army at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Daniel Rooney, 18, and father-of-six Pat McVeigh, 44, were killed in […]

Lord Prior: Former NI secretary says IRA violence ‘did work’

Posted By: September 26, 2014

  Lord Prior said as time went on it became possible for both sides to get into a position where it was easier to make peace than make war. BBC. September 29, 2014 A former Northern Ireland secretary who served under Margaret Thatcher has said the IRA’s violence worked. Lord Jim Prior was secretary of state […]

‘Who Won the War in North?’

Posted By: September 26, 2014

    New BBC documentary asks ‘Who Won the War in North?’ Gerry Moriarty.Irish Times.  Friday, September 26, 2014, 08:41 A former senior British Conservative minister, James Prior, has stated that “violence probably does work”, while one of the last of the IRA hunger strikers to end the fast, Gerard Hodgins, has said that in terms of the […]

Political process ‘untenable’ MP tells Labour conference

Posted By: September 26, 2014

Impartial Reporter. September 25,  2014 . SINN Fein MP Michelle Gildernew has told a Labour Party Conference fringe meeting that the political process in Northern Ireland is in a perilous and untenable position. Michelle Gildernew. Addressing the theme, ‘Labour, Ireland and defending the peace process’ the Fermanagh-south Tyrone representative laid the blame on political unionism having what she said […]

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