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Next Sinn Féin 10 year plan crucial

Posted By: August 10, 2016

Brian Feeney.Wednesday, August 10, 2016On July16 in Ballyfermot Civic Centre Gerry Adams launched Sinn Féin’s review of its strategy with the aim of developing a 10 year plan for the party.Ballyfermot has a symbolic importance for Sinn Féin in the Republic because it was there in what was then called the Ballyfermot Community Centre that Sinn Féin held its ard fheis in 1992.It […]

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Arlene Foster should repudiate Free P rant

Posted By: August 09, 2016

Arlene Foster should repudiate Free P rantNews Letter (Belfast). Monday, August 8, 2016I respect First Minister Arlene Foster. She is a smart and strong leader and, naturally, I am proud she is a Fermanagh woman.Arlene recently chastised me in the media because our Internet Animated Video (IrishNationalCaucus.org) states that – despite the welcomed progress of the peace process – […]

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Donlon, Still Awful After All These Years

Posted By: August 08, 2016

Shows his true colors in “66 Days,” the Bobby Sands film CAPITOL HILL. Monday, August 8, 2016—— The one glaring note in the superb film,” 66 Days”, on Bobby Sands, is struck by Sean Donlon, former Irish ambassador to Washington (19781981).That is the view of Fr. Sean Mc Manus, President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus.Fr. Mc Manus, who also appears in the film, […]

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A Question Lingers on the Irish-British Border: What’s Next?

Posted By: August 07, 2016

STEPHEN CASTLEAUG.New Youk Times. Saturday, August  6, 2016Pat Cox, a former president of the European Parliament, at home in Blackrock, Dublin. Mr. Cox said membership in the European Union had played a crucial role in strengthening relations between Ireland and Britain. Credit Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York TimesDUNDALK, Ireland — Gerard McEvoy’s daily commute across the border between […]

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Controversy surrounding new Bobby Sands documentary ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’

Posted By: August 07, 2016

“I am honOred to be in this film, explaining the American reaction to the 1981 hunger strike of Bobby Sands and his nine colleagues. I was not expecting this film to be so very powerful.It is extraordinary and excellent.Very emotional, yet very balanced. A work of art and of history— maybe, even  a work of […]

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