Posted By: April 04, 2014
The Detail ( Belfast). Thursday, April 3, APRIL 2014 Demographic trends point to seismic shifts in Northern Ireland / NI Peace Monitoring Report 2014 By Steven McCaffery MARKETING experts say that potential customers have to hear something seven times before the message sinks in. And the famous `Rule of 7’ has its place in politics too. A series of significant […]
Posted By: April 03, 2014
Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast).Thursday, April 3, 2014. AT first glance, Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton could scarcely have been more emphatic. The loyalist rampage through Larne on Sunday night was “a power trip” by “the south east Antrim UDA”, which is seeking a “legitimacy within communities” that it must be denied. The arrests that […]
Posted By: April 03, 2014
Allison Morris.Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, April 2, 2014. WHEN is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? When it’s a loyalist one apparently. When 100 men armed with cudgels and hammers rampage through a small town like Larne on Mothering Sunday you have to ask – is there anyone in charge of this place? This October […]
Posted By: April 03, 2014
BRIAN FEENEY. IRISH NEWS (BELFAST). WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014. IN his first annual report HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor said it is the first duty of police to prevent crime and to keep people safe. On Sunday in Larne the PSNI failed to accomplish either. It’s not the first time and it won’t […]
Posted By: April 01, 2014
Tom Kelly. Irish News( Belfast). Monday, March 31, 2014 LAST week SDLP councillor Pat McCarthy tabled a novel motion to invite Pope Francis to Belfast. Some felt he was being mischievous. Certainly the outspoken Ulster Unionist stalwart Jim Rodgers was having none of it. McCarthy felt that a papal visit to Belfast would be a […]