Posted By: May 16, 2014
Diarmaid Fleming. BBC News. Wednesday, May 14, 2014 The aftermath of the Talbot Street bombing in Dublin Forty years ago this month, bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, killed 33 people and an unborn child – it was the most deadly attack in the political violence known as the Troubles. Victims and relatives have just announced their […]
Posted By: May 15, 2014
Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, May 14, 2014 THERE are few people who get as excited about elections as journalists, possibly even more than the candidates themselves. It brings out our inner geek – percentages, transfer votes, trends, first-time voters, first-time candidates and on this occasion we’ve even got a first-time party. Before […]
Posted By: May 15, 2014
The noted Belfast columnist wonders if another British leader is playing the Orange Card. Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, May 14, 2014 ON THE evening of 30 April as Gerry Adams was being taken into custody in Antrim David Cameron was hosting a cosy reception in the garden of 10 Downing Street for the DUP’s […]
Posted By: May 13, 2014
BY ROBERT FISK – Belfast Telegraph,12 MAY, 2014 The law is the law is the law. So I was taught as a child. But it’s all baloney. Take the case of Gerry Adams, “arrested” and then released after chatting to the Northern Ireland police – I notice the cops did not use the […]
Posted By: May 13, 2014
Press Release — Pat Finucane Center 13 May 2014 The decision by the PSNI [ Police Service of Northern Ireland] not to fully investigate shootings carried out by the secret plainclothes British army unit, the Military Reaction Force, is a ‘travesty of justice’ according to the PFC. Following a BBC Panorama programme broadcast in […]