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STORMONT BOWS DOWN TO BUSINESS INSTEAD OF GETTING DOWN TO IT

Posted By: January 31, 2015

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, January 31, 2014. HOORAY, we are going to have new government departments at Stormont. (No, not a new government, just some new departments. We are one of the few places in the world where having a new government is forbidden by law. Think of it as an Irish form of democracy.) The BBC […]

Robert Hamill family’s anguish as murder case files are lost in post

Posted By: January 31, 2015

Background note on the below article: “Key information on Robert Hamill murder inquiry ‘lost’”   Back in 1999, on April 22, the Irish National Caucus arranged for Diane Hamill, Robert’s sister, to testify at a Congressional Hearing before the House International Relations Committee, then Chaired by Congressman Ben Gilman (R-NY). Ben was a champion of […]

ANTI-AUSTERITY POLL WIN IMPACTS ACROSS EUROPE

Posted By: January 28, 2015

Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, January 28, 2015. THE results of the Greek election are critically important for Sinn Féin’s prospects in the Republic. Here’s why. Sinn Féin has been developing connections with anti-austerity parties in mainland Europe whose policies are similar to Sinn Féin’s, most notably Syriza and Podemos in Spain which […]

The prince, the UDR and ‘failure of the few’

Posted By: January 28, 2015

  By Liam Murphy .Andersonstown News ( Belfast).January 27, 2015   The Duke of York is in the news again with accusations of impropriety coming from USA. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace has made a statement refuting the allegations and assuring us of his innocence. That’s good enough for me, but I’m baffled as to […]

Stormont politicians’ Middle East views ‘predictable’

Posted By: January 28, 2015

Mark Davenport. BBC. Northern Ireland. August 18, 2014 The row in Newry over the Sinn Fein Mayor’s letter proposing a boycott of Israeli goods is the latest in a sequence of incidents highlighting the tendency for many nationalists and unionists to take sides when it comes to the conflict in the Middle East. It follows […]

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