Posted By: June 04, 2015
Patrick Roberts @irishcentral June 4, 2015 + Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The notion that Britain would not have overreacted to a 9/11 in their own country like the US apparently did is being peddled by the Irish-born, new Oxford University Vice Chancellor Professor, Louise Richardson. It is poppycock, as the Brits […]
Posted By: June 04, 2015
By Gemma Burns . Belfast Media Group. Thursday, June 4, 2015 A Belfast man shot and injured in the Sean Graham’s massacre has described the moment when families were told the murder weapon was on display in a British museum. Mark Sykes, who was shot in the attack that killed his teenage brother-in-law Peter […]
Posted By: June 03, 2015
Brian Feeney. Irish News( Belfast). Wednesday, June 3, 2015 YOU know the cliché that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity? That may be a reason why people here are finding something more interesting to do instead of voting in elections. The difference is […]
Posted By: June 02, 2015
Fallout from Mac Bride Principles repealCapitol Hill. JUNE 2, 2015— Florida’s repeal of the Mac Bride Principles legislation, passed in 1988, continues to cause political waves and provoke strong emotions.Governor Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7024,which repealed Mac Bride on May 21, 2015Florida’s action shocked and outraged Irish-Americans […]
Posted By: June 01, 2015
CHRIS MARSHALL. The Scotsman.Friday, May 29, 2015 CENTURIES-old legislation which prevents there being a Catholic monarch is continuing to foster division and should be scrapped, a major report into sectarianism in Scotland has concluded.The Scottish Government-commissioned study said the 1701 Act of Settlement was evidence for some of the state “harbouring implicit and unacknowledged sectarianism”.Changes to the succession laws in 2011 gave sons and daughters […]