Posted By: July 24, 2015
UN body in Finucane probe callConnla Young. Irish News ( Belfast). Friday, July 24, 2015Murdered solicitor Pat Finucane A United Nations committee has called on the British government to consider launching an official inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, pictured.The United Nations Human Rights Committee has also urged British authorities to set up the proposed Historical […]
Posted By: July 23, 2015
John Monaghan.Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, July 23, 2015The post by the loyalist UPRG asking whether police officers “should be allowed” to live in loyalist areas A loyalist threat to police has asked if officers “should be allowed to live” in unionist areas.It is the second loyalist threat against the PSNI since the Twelfth after masked and armed men issued […]
Posted By: July 22, 2015
Jim Gibney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, July 22, 2015Seanna WalshSeanna Walsh spent 21 years in jail on three different occasions between January 1973 and September 1998. He was 16 when he first went to jail.There, in the cages of Long Kesh he met Bobby Sands, who was, like Seanna, a teenager.They became great friends. Their […]
Posted By: July 22, 2015
Brian Feeney . Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, July 22, 2015 They pop up on TV news programmes everywhere in the UK and US like pimples or in some acute cases like suppurating boils. Well, not everywhere – everywhere there’s been an incident in what are known as ‘deprived areas’.You name it, a racial attack, a riot, or […]
Posted By: July 18, 2015
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, July 18, 2015 Did you ever think you would see the Conservative Party copying Sinn Féin? Well, that is what David Cameron is doing – and, in fairness, he is doing it very well.He is not imitating Sinn Féin’s policies, but by seeking to place the Tories in permanent political power, […]