Posted By: November 24, 2015
William Scholes. Irish News(Belfast). Monday, November 23, 2015If the hat fits – Peter Robinson is to relinquish the DUP leadership to spend more time with his carp PETER Robinson’s announcement that he will soon bow out of elected politics to spend more time with his carp had been long anticipated, albeit in much the way that the onset of […]
Posted By: November 21, 2015
Ben Lowry. News Letter(Belfast).Saturday, November 21, 2015 Peter Robinson is one of five brilliant men prominent in unionism over the last 30 years – the others being Robert McCartney, Ian Paisley, David Trimble and Jim Allister. Not one of them is what you would describe as an easy character, and they have often had turbulent […]
Posted By: November 20, 2015
Jim Manley. Irish News(Belfast). Thursday, November 19, 2015 Few observers expressed surprise yesterday when Peter Robinson announced he is stepping down as DUP leader and first minister. At 66, with a recent health scare and an assembly election looming, anybody with half an interest in what passes for politics in the north knew his departure […]
Posted By: November 18, 2015
“In recent years the Irish government has gone too far in the opposite direction. Contrasted with the part Barry, also a Fine Gael minister played,[ Irish Foreign Minister] Charlie Flanagan’s contribution has been feeble and muted…. on the vexed issue of the legacy of the past, which has been the sticking point for some weeks, what has Flanagan said to encourage nationalists that […]
Posted By: November 16, 2015
Tom Kelly.Irish News. Monday, November 16, 2015 The SDLP conference is over and there is a new king. In a weekend of carnage and terror, the SDLP membership have convincingly opted for a change of direction. Many moons ago, during another conference,the word came through to the floor of an SDLP closed session of the […]