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Dublin-Monaghan: Ireland’s unsolved bomb massacre 40 years on

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 […]

SECTARIAN POLITICS CHASING YOUNG GENERATION AWAY

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 […]

GOVERNMENT’S IMPARTIALITY COMPROMISED BY MEETING

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 […]

The spread of British hypocrisy, from Gerry Adams and Northern Ireland to Syria

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 […]

PSNI decision on MRF shootings ‘travesty of justice’

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 […]

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