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British diplomats in US lobbied against fair employment campaign

Posted By: August 21, 2015

  British concern at the growing success of the Irish-American campaign to persuade US state legislatures to adopt the MacBride Principles on fair employment in Northern Ireland is charted in confidential 1987 files released today in Belfast. The MacBride Principles were linked to the former Irish minister, jurist and Nobel Prize winner Seán MacBride, who […]

Cuts row becoming a fiasco for Villiers

Posted By: August 19, 2015

Brian Feeney.Irish News ( Belfast). August 19, 2015On Monday the Department for Social Development published a report on the reasons people use food banks. They concluded low income was the main reason.Astonishing. Who’da thought? There’s you thinking people toddled round to a food bank because they couldn’t get a bus to Tesco. You wonder how much that […]

Hamilton to consider publishing historical reports

Posted By: August 18, 2015

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast) Tuesday, August 18, 2015PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton has pledged action in wake of Feile debate  CHIEF Constable George Hamilton has pledged to look at publishing the British government inquiries into its ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy and security force collusion with loyalists.The PSNI head said he would “progress… and respond” to recent calls for […]

Taoiseach hails Irish ‘spiritualism’

Posted By: August 18, 2015

Taoiseach hails Irish ‘spiritualism’Enda Kenny welcomes American pilgrims to land of ‘spiritualism’Taoiseach Enda Kenny.Irish Catholic( Dublin). August 17, 2015Enda Kenny’s media handlers are notoriously keen to keep the Taoiseach away from microphones. But, an event welcoming the first transatlantic pilgrimage to Knock at the weekend seemed like a occasion where nothing could go wrong. Nothing, that […]

Taoiseach hails Irish ‘spiritualism’

Posted By: August 18, 2015

 Taoiseach hails Irish ‘spiritualism’ Enda Kenny welcomes American pilgrims to land of ‘spiritualism’Taoiseach Enda Kenny.Irish Catholic( Dublin). August 17, 2015Enda Kenny’s media handlers are notoriously keen to keep the Taoiseach away from microphones. But, an event welcoming the first transatlantic pilgrimage to Knock at the weekend seemed like a occasion where nothing could go wrong. Nothing, […]

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