Posted By: June 14, 2014
Noel Whelan. Friday, June 13, 2014. I have been wrong about Sinn Féin in the past. I have tended to be premature in predicting its electoral rise. Just over a decade ago, when Sinn Féin had five TDs and its leaders enjoyed heightened celebrity at the centre of the Northern Ireland peace process, I speculated […]
Posted By: June 14, 2014
Keith Duggan. Irish Times. Friday, June 13, 2014. The occasion is enshrined by the full-time score rather than the date: “Ireland 1, Italy 0” has the power to send a generation of Irish people back to an afternoon 20 years ago, when the national soccer team somehow beat the Italians in the now-razed Giants Stadium, in New […]
Posted By: June 14, 2014
BBC NI. Friday, June 13, 2014 Dr Dominic Bryan from Queen’s University, Belfast, carried out a major study examining the flying of flags in Northern Ireland A police decision to clamp down on flags in a mixed area of Belfast is the “most significant” flag policy move in years, an academic expert has said. On […]
Posted By: June 12, 2014
Fr. Sean Mc Manus arrived in the United States on October 2, 1972. One of his first missions was to convince America that the British Government was torturing political prisoners in Northern Ireland… The Brits branded him a terrorist, a progandist for the IRA, etc., etc. Now 42 years later, articles like this one […]
Posted By: June 12, 2014
Sinn Fein surge in opinion poll Gerry Adams and his party Sinn Fein were buoyed by opinion poll findings. BELFAST TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014 Sinn Fein has joined ruling Fine Gael as the most popular party in Ireland, according to the first opinion poll since the local and European elections. And despite the controversy over […]