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My view: Peter Robinson’s message will turn off overseas investors

Posted By: May 31, 2014

 YVONNE RIDLEY . Belfast Telegraph. Friday ,  MAY. 30,  2014 I was utterly dismayed by Peter Robinson’s cruel and hurtful comments; they are the sort of comments we have come to expect from racist and Islamaphobic yobs in the far right and not from the First Minister who has clearly forgotten he is supposed to represent all […]

First Minister Peter Robinson must go or Stormont will be a sham

Posted By: May 31, 2014

If the outcry over the First Minister’s controversial comments about Muslims isn’t grounds for resignation, what is, asks Malachi O’Doherty BelfastTelegraph. Friday,  MAY 30,  2014 By not resigning after his forked-tongue defence of Pastor James McConnell, the First Minister, Peter Robinson, is not conducting himself like a responsible politician in a democratic culture. If the Assembly can’t impress […]

Lo ‘heartened’ by messages of support

Posted By: May 31, 2014

Irish News. Saturday, May 31, 2014 ANNA Lo last night said First Minister Peter Robinson should resign if he does not publicly apologise for his remarks about Muslims. The Alliance assembly member said that the “final straw” in her decision to leave Northern Ireland politics was her “huge anger” at Mr Robinson’s support of “outrageous” comments evangelical preacher James McConnell […]

Peter Hain: Gerry Adams arrest was a fiasco… we need to move on from past

Posted By: May 31, 2014

ADRIAN RUTHERFORD . BELFAST TELEGRAPH .FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014   Prosecuting people for crimes committed during the Troubles will achieve nothing but leading victims down a false path, former Secretary of State Peter Hain has said. In remarks which will re-open the debate on dealing with the past, Mr Hain said pursuing decades-old crimes was […]

DUP: Dineen Walker apologises for calling Anna Lo racist

Posted By: May 30, 2014

ANOTHER DREADFUL DUP ATTACK ON ANNA  LO NOTE OF EXPLANATION : The BBC reports that the excellent Anna Lo has been subjected to another attack. By Peter Coulter BBC News NI. Friday , May 30, 2014   Newtownabbey deputy lord mayor Dineen Walker has apologised after calling Alliance MLA Anna Lo “racist” on social media, the DUP […]

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