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TUV man Donald Crawford branded a ‘dinosaur’ after explosive rant at Catholics, gays and migrants

Posted By: March 11, 2016

By Staff reporter.Belfast Telegraph. Friday, March 11, 2016 Assembly hopeful Donald CrawfordA TUV Assembly candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone who refuses to say if he has any Catholic friends claims nationalists have been “brainwashed” by republicans to despise unionists.In an astonishing outburst, Lisbellaw farmer Donald Crawford also claimed that “we are being overrun” by migrants, with some […]

Fear and loathing do Foster no favours

Posted By: March 11, 2016

Alex Kane. Irish News (Belfast). March 11, 2016I can understand why the DUP is feeling a little spooked at the moment. The electorate delivered unexpected victory to David Cameron last year, resurrected Fianna Fáil two weeks ago, delivered a series of surprising outcomes across the world since 2013 and has been rewarding mavericks from both the left and right.A couple of years ago […]

Raymond McCord: ‘I’m a dad looking for justice and I’m never going to stop’

Posted By: March 10, 2016

Deborah Mc Aleese .Belfast Telegraph. Monday, March 7, 2016   Anguish: Raymond McCord at the Conor Lecture Theatre in Belfast. He says the pain of his son’s murder is still raw Victims’ campaigner Raymond McCord tells Deborah McAeese how his life is still dominated by the murder of his son 18 years ago at the […]

Arlene Foster wraps the orange flag around herself

Posted By: March 10, 2016

Fear of Sinn Féin leads the DUP to suppress issues that would split other partiesEamonn McCann. Irish Times. Thursday, March 10, 2016 Sinn Féin could “take Northern Ireland” within weeks.Thus First Minister Arlene Foster in her leader’s address to the DUP annual conference last weekend.She was referring to Sinn Féin possibly emerging from the May 5th election as the […]

Let’s not let Cameron just ‘get on with it’

Posted By: March 07, 2016

Tom Kelly Monday Irish News (Belfast). Monday, March 7, 2016When Prime Minister David Cameron said he would allow anti-EU cabinet ministers to keep their government jobs and campaign against him in the forthcoming referendum, he probably made the biggest political blunder of his career.Cameron, like the late US president, Lyndon Johnson, may think it’s better to have them “inside the tent p***ing out than […]

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