Posted By: December 11, 2015
Michael D Higgins convinced his father’s long battle to get military pension was due to his anti-Treaty activities Ronan McGreevy. Irish Times. Friday, December 11, 2015 There is a letter in the military pensions archive which for President Michael D Higgins brings back painful memories of his father’s struggles. The youngest of 10 children, John Higgins was active in the War of Independence and afterwards […]
Posted By: December 10, 2015
John Monaghan.Irish News(Belfast). Thursday, December 10, 2015 MORE than one in five police officers have been recommended for disciplinary procedures or sanctions in the past five years, new figures reveal.Since 2010 the Police Ombudsman has made recommendations against 1,484 police officers out of a current total of 6,780 serving officers.It means that the ombudsman is recommending disciplinary […]
Posted By: December 09, 2015
The Irish National Caucus is relentlessly pushing this issue before the U.S. Congress. It is a story that Congress cannot ignore. It exposes, maybe more than any other story, that the British Government — far from being neutral in the conflict—was fighting a most “dirty war” in Northern Ireland.Far from defending the lives of Protestants […]
Posted By: December 06, 2015
’ Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, December 5, 2015 THE sister of a woman allegedly shot dead by undercover British soldiers more than 40 years ago has cleared the first stage in a legal battle over investigating the killing. Margaret McQuillan was granted leave to seek a judicial review amid claims that the PSNI lacks the […]
Posted By: December 04, 2015
Denis Bradley. Irish News(Belfast). Friday, December 4, 2015 It is clear that our troubled past keeps running into brick walls. In the world of politics, when something doesn’t happen over a protracted time, it can be put down to a lack of political will. The past is the most political of issues and the failure […]