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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]