Posted By: July 20, 2016
Tuesday, July 20, 2016The PSNI has refused to remove an overtly sectarian and grossly offensive banner erected to loyalist sectarian killer Billy Wright that celebrates the murder of four men in Boyles Bar, Cappagh, County Tyrone, in March 1991.Responding to the PSNI decisions RFJ Director Mark Thompson issued the following statement:“In the first instance this deliberately aggravated act of hostility has been […]
Posted By: July 19, 2016
John P. Mc Carthy. The Catholic World Report.June 06, 2016 John P. McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University. Recent political developments, such as the passage by over 60 percent of the electorate of a constitutional amendment last year accepting same-sex marriage, definitely suggests a changed Ireland from the 1980s.Rónán Thomas Mullen, […]
Posted By: July 19, 2016
Sinn Féin Minister says Brokenshire needs to realise the North sees ‘its future in Europe’Amanda Ferguson. Irish Times. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said the new British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire, needs to realise that people in the North “see their future in Europe”.The Deputy First Minister was speaking at Stormont Castle on Monday […]
Posted By: July 19, 2016
“Who knows what may happen in the time ahead?” Taoiseach tells reporters at MacGill Pat Leahy. IrishTimes. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Enda Kenny with his aunts Una Blain, Collette McNelis, Breege Connor and Christina Curran when he visited Glenties to attend the MacGill Summer School. Photograph: North West Newspix Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that the prospect of a […]
Posted By: July 18, 2016
Deaglain de Breadun. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, July 18, 2016On a visit to Dublin Castle recently I recalled for a British colleague how Michael Collins arrived late for what he described as the “surrender” of the imperial citadel. It is said the Big Fellow was rebuked by the British for being seven minutes late and he retorted: “We’ve been waiting over […]
