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DUP POSTURING ENSURES NO TRUTH AND NO JUSTICE

Posted By: March 05, 2014

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, March 6, 2014. HE came down the steps at Stormont Castle with a carefully chosen coterie of accomplices: Depooty Dawds, the leader of the DUP MPs, Lord Morrow, Diane Dodds – in case people had forgotten she is standing for Europe – and Michelle McIlveen for their task? To […]

British and Irish governments’ ‘silence’ over evidence of collusion in killings criticised

Posted By: March 05, 2014

 Author and campaigner address NUI Galway Irish Centre for Human Rights Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in February 1989. Photograph: Pacemaker   • Irish Times. Wednesday.Mar 5, 2014 The “silence” of the British and Irish governments over evidence of alleged RUC and British army collusion in 120 killings on both sides […]

FUMBLES AND FURY HELP DISGUISE ‘LETTERS’ TRUTH

Posted By: March 04, 2014

Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News ( Belfast). Tuesday, March 4, 2014. IT could have been avoided, like most crises. Peter Robinson and the DUP could have minimised the Downey case instead of inflating it. But that would have been to confront rather than deny the outcome of The Troubles, and the situation that they, and […]

OTR DEAL LEGITIMATE FROM SF’S PERSPECTIVE

Posted By: March 03, 2014

Tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, March 3, 2013 SINCE the Good Friday Agreement there has been a slew of books written by or about the various protagonists involved with the evolution of our peace process. everyone it seems had something to say about his or her part in the creation of peace in […]

On the Runs: Secret deal hidden in plain sight

Posted By: March 01, 2014

Mark Devenport. BBC NI. February 28, 2014 The Police Service of Northern Ireland codenamed their processing of republican On The Runs “Operation Rapid”. The same nickname could have been applied to this week’s fast moving political crisis. During a 24-hour period it looked like we were heading back to the David Trimble era, when the […]

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