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This is a time for leadership – not political point-scoring

Posted By: September 04, 2015

“This is a time for leadership and I am prepared to give that leadership. I expect the same commitment from Peter Robinson, Mike Nesbitt, Alasdair McDonnell and David Ford, and from An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the British prime minister Martin Mc Guinness. Irish News ( Belfast). Friday, September 4, 2015RECENT events in Belfast are first and foremost a […]

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Whatever about Sinn Féin, there are questions for the DUP

Posted By: September 04, 2015

Eamonn McCann. Irish Times. Thursday, September 3, 2015, 21:14 The North’s First Minister, Peter Robinson, met David Cameron on Tuesday to convey his party’s concern about suggestions that the Provisional IRA has not gone away nor relinquished its association with Sinn Féin and that, in view of the murder last month of Kevin McGuigan, allegedly […]

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After the posturing, all eyes are on unionists

Posted By: September 04, 2015

Allison Morris. Irish News( Belfast). Wednesday, September 3, 2015Peter Robinson said this week Stormont cannot return to “business as usual” after the latest political crisis and UUP walkout, which might have served as a dire warning were it not for the small matter that prior to the summer recess the assembly wasn’t functioning anyway.The fact the DUP leader […]

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Unionists see no devils in their own backyardss

Posted By: September 01, 2015

FIONNUALA O CONNOR. Irish News ( Belfast). Tuesday, September 1, 2015 Trust, says Mike Nesbitt, that’s the thing, and he has none in Sinn Féin. Fair enough, watching them duck and dive and contradict each other. How long ago it seems that Sinn Féin tactics were worked through by committee, or so it was said, […]

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