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RISING TIDE OF ROWS OVER 1916 EVENTS

Posted By: January 11, 2015

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, January 10, 2015 OH GOOD, it looks like we are going to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising by having a huge row. How very appropriate. The row stems from conflicting interpretations of the Rising’s attempt to shape modern Ireland. The writings of Pearse and Connolly (and […]

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DOOR HAS BEEN OPENED TO SHED LIGHT ON PAST

Posted By: January 08, 2015

Jim Gibney. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, January 8, 2015 FOR the first time since the conflict in the north broke out in the mid-1960s and after decades of campaigning, a door has been opened to the past which potentially should allow the truth to be known for the relatives of those bereaved in the […]

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LATEST DEAL NOT PERFECT BUT IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted By: January 08, 2015

Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, January 8, 2015 DUP staffer and north Belfast councillor Lee Reynolds has written a fascinating blog on the Haass talks, which he observed at close quarters as his party’s note-taker. Reynolds blames the failure one year ago mainly on Haass himself, accusing the US diplomat of growing bored with […]

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DUP LEFT RED-FACED BY GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST

Posted By: January 07, 2015

Allison Morris. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, January 7, 2015 IT has become an annual tradition: just as the last of the leftovers are fed to a grateful dog, the declassified government files are released giving a glimpse of a not so bygone time, a time when Paisley was still rabble rousing and Adams was […]

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Religion’s role in Northern Ireland politics

Posted By: January 06, 2015

Chris Page.BBC News NI. October 16, 2014 Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell once famously said: “We don’t do God.” But in Northern Ireland, it can feel like God is a political player. A number of our politicians, including ministers, have faith and talk about it. That makes Northern Ireland different to many other countries […]

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