Posted By: September 26, 2015
Irish News(Belfast). Monday, September 21, 2015A man wrongly jailed over the Birmingham pub bombings has thrown his weight behind a campaign for a fresh inquest.Twenty one people were killed and 182 injured when the IRA bombs exploded in two city centre pubs on November 21 1974.Paddy Hill and five others – the Birmingham Six – were released […]
Posted By: September 26, 2015
Connla Young. Irish News (Belfast). Friday, September 25, 2015 Relatives of people killed in the McGurk’s Bar massacre will go to court today to challenge a police report into the atrocity.Legal action was launched after the now defunct Historical Enquiries Team found there was no evidence of bias in the original RUC investigation.Fifteen people were killed when […]
Posted By: September 25, 2015
Alex Kane. Irish News (Belfast).Friday, September 26. 2015 While the headlines this week have been dominated by talks, the paramilitary assessment panel and Jamie Bryson, something very important slipped in under the radar: the first reading of John McCallister’s assembly and executive reform (assembly opposition) bill. And this is important, because it is the first time that the […]
Posted By: September 25, 2015
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his support for a united Ireland in a recent interview. Ulster TV ( U.TV).Thursday, September 24, 2015 New Statesman magazine asked if he supported reunification in a question and answer session.Mr Corbyn replied: “It’s an aspiration that I have always gone along with.”However his comments have been branded “unhelpful” to the Northern […]
Posted By: September 25, 2015
“Peter Robinson, in an attempt to out manoeuvre Mike Nesbitt, has been making a mockery of the institutions with his ministers resigning and then being re-instated and the party’s MLAs keeping attendance to a minimum – except that is when they sit on the finance committee and want to prevent Jamie Bryson giving evidence in public session.” […]