Posted By: April 18, 2016
Irish News editorial. Monday, April 18, 2016THE latest serious conflict of interest facing Theresa Villiers illustrates sharply why her belief that she would be able to maintain a neutral role as Stormont secretary of state while forcibly advocating the campaign to remove the UK from the EU against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland was hopelessly flawed from the start.Ms […]
Posted By: April 18, 2016
Controversial RUC unit was disbanded just months after start of TroublesConnla Young. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, April 18, 2016The Ulster Special Constabulary Association has been awarded victims fundingEast Derry assembly member John Dallat is concerned that the Ulster Special Constabulary Association has been awarded funding from a victims’ groupALMOST £13,000 has been paid to former members of the B-Specials […]
Posted By: April 18, 2016
Former police ombudsman tells conference papers are ‘aggressively hostile’ to churchPatsy McGarry in Boston. Irish Times. Monday, April 18, 2016 The media has been criticised at a conference in Boston for contributing to the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Speaking in Boston College at the weekend, Baroness Nuala O’Loan said “in a country in which the media was once sympathetic to the Catholic Church, it is […]
Posted By: April 15, 2016
Seamus McKinney. Irish News (Belfast).Friday, April 15, 2016 A blue plaque is unveiled outside the Sollus Centre in the village of Bready, Co-Tyrone by the Ulster History circle. Celebrating Oliver Pollock who was born near Bready and later created the Dollar $ign while working as a highly successful merchant in America. The plaque was unveiled […]
Posted By: April 13, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday. april 13, 2016 The whole place is festooned with posters but you don’t detect much interest in the assembly election, do you? Currently it’s the media trying to excite some interest in how the six seats in south Belfast will pan out or whether Sinn Féin can overtake the […]