Posted By: June 18, 2016
Deaglán de Bréadún. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 18, 2016SINN Féin is opposed to Brexit but still wants a British exit from the north, party leader Gerry Adams has told The Irish News.Speaking at his office in Dundalk, the Dáíl deputy for Louth, right, said: “It’s not in Ireland’s interest, whatever we think about the European Union, to have one part in […]
Posted By: June 18, 2016
Frank Mulhern, whose son Joseph Mulhern was shot by the IRA in July 1993. Picture Mal McCann.Irish News, Friday, June 17, 2016 17:16Freddie Scappaticci. Picture by Pacemaker.THE father of an IRA murder victim has failed in a legal attempt to secure a fresh inquest amid claims the British agent Stakeknife was involved in the execution.Frank Mulhern was […]
Posted By: June 18, 2016
By Steven McCaffery. The Detail. February 3, 2014UNIONISTS allege that the Irish government helped create the Provisional IRA, and then failed to do enough to combat republican violence during the Troubles. The Detail’s Steven McCaffery examines Dublin’s role in the conflict through the eyes of people who watched history unfold. But the outcome raises uncomfortable questions for all sides.THERE are four groups of people: Irish military families […]
Posted By: June 18, 2016
Steven McCaffery,The Detail. Saturday, June 18, 2016On this day in 1994 loyalist gunmen attacked a bar in Loughinisland, Co Down, killing six men watching a Republic of Ireland football match. Now confirmation of security force ‘collusion’ in the atrocity has sparked a dispute over the words we use to unpick the past. Steven McCaffery reports.NORTHERN Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, when challenged on […]
Posted By: June 18, 2016
Antrim and Ballymena Times. Friday June 17, 2016SDLP Councillor Declan O’Loan has criticised Mid and East Antrim Borough Council for its removal of a 1916 memorial in Carnlough.He said the small memorial, which was erected without authorisation on Council property earlier this year, was removed by the Council on Thursday night.Cr O’Loan said: “I deplore this action by the Council. I do […]