Posted By: May 28, 2015
Niall O’Dowd @niallodowd Irish Central. May 28,2015Former senator Gary Hart has been operating as Secretary of State John Kerry’s personal emissary to Northern Ireland since last October, but that needs to change.He does not have the status of a special envoy as George Mitchell and others had. He needs to have the full-throated support of the Obama administration behind him as the latest […]
Posted By: May 27, 2015
Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast).Wednesday, may 27, 2015 IT’S back to the future. We are where we were 50 years ago, a year or so before the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association[ NICRA] got under way. NICRA’s most lethal weapon was to demand the same rights as UK citizens in Britain. Unionists had no […]
Posted By: May 21, 2015
SENT TO 490 MEDIA OUTLETS IN FLORIDAFLORIDA SENATE BILL ANTI-CATHOLIC, ANTI-IRISH Senate Bill 7024 Is ShamefulCapitol Hill. Wednesday, May 20, 2015 —— If Florida governor were to sign a Senate Bill to repeal the Mac Bride Principles, it will be seen as anti-Catholic and anti-Irish — whatever the governor’s intentions.That is […]
Posted By: May 18, 2015
Tom Kelly. Irish News ( belfast). Monday, May 18, 2015 LIKE many commentators I was surprised by Seamus Mallon’s dramatic intervention on the future of Alasdair McDonnell’s leadership of the SDLP. Mallon has remained silent on leadership issues so his comments as one of the SDLP’s last great vote winners are not easily ignored. […]
Posted By: May 18, 2015
By Chris Moore BBC Spotlight NI. May12, 2015 A shadowy Special Branch ballistics unit is being investigated over its links to weapons used in 60 murders. The revelation is made in Tuesday night’s BBC Spotlight NI programme. It looks at the Weapons & Explosives Research Centre (WERC) which was the Special Branch ballistics unit up […]