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DUP MASK WAS ALREADY A LOSS FIT BEFORE WELLS

Posted By: April 30, 2015

Newton Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, April 30, 201 OF all the responses to the career implosion of DUP ex-health minister Jim Wells, it was deputy prime minister Nick Clegg who sounded most ‘Northern Ireland’. “The mask has slipped,” a clearly delighted Clegg told the BBC – the sort of remark you see middle-aged […]

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THE CAUSE OF IRELAND IS THE CAUSE OF LABOR

Posted By: April 28, 2015

Fr. Sean Mc Manus and AFL-CIO President Richard TrumkaCAPITOL HILL. APRIL 27, 2015—— The Irish patriot and martyr James Connolly  famously said : “The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland; the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour.”Fr. Sean Mc Manus— President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus— has had a very […]

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‘The Tablet and the Irish have often struggled to understand each other’

Posted By: April 27, 2015

Brendan Walsh. Irish News.Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 12:30There was just the one letter in the first issue of The Tablet, dated May 16th, 1840, and it touched on Irish affairs. “I am rejoiced to find that the Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland have at length an organ to communicate to the public facts of importance to […]

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Changing of the Catholic Votes in Northern Ireland?

Posted By: April 27, 2015

The Catholic World Report. April 24, 2015 Social issues and common causes are making some Catholics reconsider cultural and political alliances leading up to crucial May 6th electionMichael KellyLeft: St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland; right: Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast, seat of the assembly. (Photos: Wikipedia) When British voters go to the polls on […]

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A Nationalist Orangeman

Posted By: April 27, 2015

 On This Day Irish News, Saturday, April 25, 1946A Nationalist Orangeman One of the most remarkable figures in 19th century Irish history is an Ulster landlord and leading Orangman who cast his lot in with the popular demand for an Irish Parliament and was critical of British rule. The fact of Grey Porter (1817-1903), High Sheriff of County […]

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