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POLITICS IN NORTH NEEDS TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

Posted By: July 04, 2014

Newton Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, July 3, 2014 NORTHERN Ireland needs more politicians in hock to business interests. That is the conclusion the sponsors of the peace process have effectively reached and they have almost as good as said so. Even before the failure of the Haass talks, Sinn Féin has been screaming […]

A reminder of what it was like to be Irish in the wrong place at the wrong time

Posted By: July 04, 2014

 Joe Horgan . Irish Post ( London). July 2, 2014   ‘The truth is that Gerry Conlon is dead and they started killing him when he was only 21 years old’ THE death of Gerry Conlon is a reminder to us all of a Britain and an Ireland that we all once lived in. We may now live in […]

Exclusive: BBC’s Panorama team loses confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit

Posted By: July 04, 2014

A researcher allegedly downloaded material from an online dropbox service on to a USB stick and handed it to a third party IAN BURRELL.THE INDEPENDENT ( LONDON) Wednesday , July 2,  2014 Highly sensitive and confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit which is alleged to have shot unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland has been “lost” by the BBC’s […]

Flying of loyalist flags ‘doing damage to tourism’

Posted By: July 03, 2014

FERMANAG HERALD. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014 A SINN Fein MLA has claimed the “sea of flags” erected in Enniskillen town centre every year for the Twelfth holiday season, including paramilitary flags, damages the local tourism industry and hospitality sector. Phil Flanagan accused those who erect loyalist and Union flags of creating a “loyalist ghetto” in the […]

Eleventh night bonfires: How centuries-old tradition is (very) slowly evolving

Posted By: July 03, 2014

ORANGE BONFIRES: MARKING  TERRITORY,  CLAIMING SUPREMACY Sandy Row South Belfast BY JONNY BYRNE –  BELFAST TELEGRAPH . JULY  2, 2014 Eleventh night bonfires have been a consistent feature of community life in unionist and loyalist circles since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. The symbolism associated with bonfires continues to divide opinion, with nationalists viewing them as […]

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