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Scotland could veto Brexit laws to protect its interests – Sturgeon

Posted By: June 26, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus   “Fair play to the Scots!,” said Fr. Sean Mc Manus. “ Nicola Sturgeon is showing far more leadership,  guts, and national pride than many Irish politicians who are too scared to stand up to England. It’s a pity she is not the Taoiseach or the First […]

Irish Times view: Brexit a bewildering act of self-harm

Posted By: June 26, 2016

What we cannot and will not accept is that the EU is the problemIrish Times Editorial. Friday,  June 24, 2016.‘Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom, ” Nigel Farage boasted this morning. Dream on. The truth is that the shocking decision of the UK to leave the European Union, genuinely bewildering to its friends and allies […]

Brexit fantasy is about to come crashing down

Posted By: June 26, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING  Distributed by the Irish National Caucus   “ It beggars belief that the Democratic Unionist Party made common cause with a movement whose logical outcome is the end of the [UK] Union. … There is, of course, a tried and trusted way to hold this kind of rickety social coalition together. It is to turn up the volume on nationalism […]

Future looks cloudy from south of The Border

Posted By: June 25, 2016

Deaglan de Breadun. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 25, 2016IT IS fair to say that the political establishment in The South is in a state of shock after the Brexit referendum result.True, there was increasing concern prior to the appalling murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. But after that terrible event there was a sense that public opinion in the UK […]

Now executive must provide leadership

Posted By: June 25, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial Saturday, June 25, 2016 The EU referendum vote result is a political earthquake and as with any large-scale tremor it will take some time for the consequences to become clear.We are now in the territory of the unknown with the political establishment in Britain, Ireland, Europe and beyond shaken to its core.The first casualty of the shock Leave […]

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