Posted By: June 06, 2015
Change a long time coming.By Jarlath Kearney. Village:Ireland’s political magazine.July 3, 2012.A key theme at the Northern Ireland Civil Service’s annual corporate gathering last month, entitled ‘NICS Live’, was the need to start “getting with devolution”. It’s exactly five years since stable devolved government was delivered in the north by the DUP and Sinn Fein’s historic rapprochement. What then […]
Posted By: June 05, 2015
Sir James: I would like Ireland to be Ireland. People ask me ‘where do you come from’ and I say Ireland . Sir James Galway Picture by David Fitzgerald.CLAIRE WILLIAMSON.Belfast Telegraph. June 5, 2015World-renowned flautist Sir James Galway has launched a remarkable broadside on the late former First Minister Ian Paisley asking if he was […]
Posted By: June 04, 2015
ATTEMPTS TO TURN CRISIS INTO DRAMA NOW A FARCE Newt Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, June 4, 2015 WHAT if you had a crisis and nobody cared? As tensions on the streets perceptibly fail to rise, some of our political leaders almost appear concerned that we are not taking their latest dispute seriously. Martin […]
Posted By: June 04, 2015
Allison Morris. Irish news ( Belfast). Thursday, June 4, 2015 DESPITE some of the absolute guff put out by the BBC at times, I would happily pay my TV licence without complaint just for the kind of investigation into collusion in Northern Ireland that was at the centre of a Panorama programme last week. The […]