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How Special Branch betrayed the police

Posted By: July 06, 2016

The extent of the State’s collusion with loyalist killers following the 1994 Loughinisland massacre was an insult to slain RUC officers that unfairly tainted the legacy of a force that tried to put murderers in prison, writes retired detective superintendent Alan Simpson.Alan Simpson. Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, July 5, 2016Alan Simpson is the author of Duplicity and Deception (Brandon)As someone who joined […]

Michael Gove a ‘fanatic’ who would damage peace process

Posted By: July 05, 2016

Brexit campaigner said Belfast Agreement was a ‘rigged referendum’ and ‘mortal stain’Peter Geoghegan. Irish Times. Tuesday, July 5, 2016Michael Gove: wrote a pamphlet in 2000 called ‘Northern Ireland: the Price of Peace’ in which he compared the Belfast Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s and the condoning of the desires of paedophiles.  Michael Gove is a “fanatic” who […]

Forum should not be stalled

Posted By: July 05, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial. Tuesday, July 5, 2016The meeting in Dublin yesterday of the North-South Ministerial Council was the first opportunity for the Irish government and Stormont leaders to discuss the seismic political shift that has resulted from the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.In this period of widespread uncertainty, it is important that those who will be most directly affected by this […]

Crowd didn’t know law but they were the judges

Posted By: July 05, 2016

THE IRISH NEWS – Monday 04 July 2016 Deaglan de Breadun Monday column KC News MANY moons ago, I worked as immigrant labour in New York alongside a Cuban who had left his native land after the revolution. He was angry about a lot of things, such as the staging of a trial by the […]

Bumbling Boris too flaky for blue-blooded Tories

Posted By: July 05, 2016

Tom Kelly .Irish News (Belfast). Monday, JUly 4, 2016‘O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain’ said poor old Hamlet but so too could Boris Johnson have echoed those words when his life’s ambition came crashing to the ground last Thursday.Michael Gove, his erstwhile friend and fellow Brexiter, delivered the fatal blow of cold steel right between the ample shoulders of Boris.Johnson rates as one of […]

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