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Bushmills Confederate flag idolizes slavery claim

Posted By: July 11, 2015

Bushmills Confederate flag idolizes slavery claim  The scene along the edge of the Dundarave housing estate in Bushmills, where tourists can leave their vehicles in a car park and take the ‘park & ride’ shuttle bus to the near-by Giants Causeway. The American Confederate flag is being flown on a fence where tourists must pass to get in and […]

Psychopath Billy Wright and the question of collusion

Posted By: July 11, 2015

An inquest into one of the last loyalist murders of the Troubles has raised the question: was the notorious LVF killer working for the Security Services? Brian Rowan.Belfast Telegraph, July 10, 2015 Notorious: Billy Wright The big collusion stories here have emerged from that secret and protected world of agents and the practices of the so-called “dirty war”.Think […]

Finally, some nuance comes to NI

Posted By: July 10, 2015

Anton McCabe. Village Magazine (Dublin). July 9,2015 The UK General Election in the North saw the stalling of the Sinn Féin juggernaut. Its share of the vote fell by 1% compared to the last election – despite fighting an extra seat, South Belfast. This was the party’s first electoral setback in the North since 1992, […]

DUP leadership is failing the electorate

Posted By: July 09, 2015

Allson Morris. Irish News( Belfast). Thursday, July 9, 2015THERE’S a lot of talk about working-class unionist disengagement from politics and, after the events of the last seven days, who could honestly blame them?While we’re a long way – possibly an inquiry away – from finding out exactly what went on when the so-called ‘bad bank’ Nama sold off […]

McGuinness: Pat Finucane murder “stinks to the high heavens”

Posted By: July 08, 2015

James Mulhall. Irish Post ( London). July 7, 2015 THE murder of Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane “stinks to the high heavens”, according to Martin McGuinness. Speaking exclusively to The Irish Post at the Sinn Féin summer reception at the House of Commons, the North of Ireland’s Deputy First Minister said that his 1989 […]

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