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Connolly family donates Rising medals

Posted By: May 13, 2016

Suzanne McGonagle. Irish News (Belfast). Friday, May 13, 2016 Medals awarded to James Connolly are now on show in the National Musuem of Ireland ACOLLECTION of medals awarded to 1916 Rising leader James Connolly and members of his family have been donated to the National Museum of Ireland.The unique collection represents awards given to four generations of the Connolly family in […]

Rise of the People Before Profits alliance offers a challenge to Sinn Fein and the SDLP… but this is not the case for the DUP

Posted By: May 13, 2016

 John Brewer. Belfast Live. Thursday,  May 12, 2016  John Brewer, Professor of Post Conflict Studies at Queen’s University gives his opinion as the dust has settled on the Assembly elections The dust has now settled on Last Thursday’s Assembly elections in Northern Ireland. Some commentators got very excited as the results slowly unfolded, thinking there was evidence of […]

Rise of the People Before Profits alliance offers a challenge to Sinn Fein and the SDLP… but this is not the case for the DUP

Posted By: May 13, 2016

John Brewer. Belfast Live. Thursday,  May 12, 2016  John Brewer, Professor of Post Conflict Studies at Queen’s University gives his opinion as the dust has settled on the Assembly elections The dust has now settled on Last Thursday’s Assembly elections in Northern Ireland. Some commentators got very excited as the results slowly unfolded, thinking there was evidence of […]

Establishment of Official Opposition a momentous change

Posted By: May 13, 2016

Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, May 12, 2016 The role of Leader of the Opposition is certain to go to UUP leader Mike Nesbitt, as representative of the largest partyThe passing of an Opposition Bill by an independent Assembly member who has since lost his seat has paved the way for one of the most momentous changes since political powersharing was […]

Nesbitt’s ‘big and bold’ move changes the agenda

Posted By: May 13, 2016

Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times.Friday, May, 13, 2016 The story was supposed to be about the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and maybe to a lesser extent about Eamonn McCann and Gerry Carroll and People Before Profit Trotskyists in the marble halls of Stormont.But, as Martin McGuinness noted, Mike Nesbitt, with his old journalistic instincts to the fore, went for a change of headline by announcing […]

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