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Could Ireland ever look at Bobby Sands in the same way as the heroes of the 1916 Rising?

Posted By: August 07, 2016

As is now known, Fr. Mc Manus is interviewed in this film about the American reaction to Bobby Sands hunger strike. Fr. Mc Manus fasted for twelve days outside the British Embassy in Washington in solidarity with Sands. The film itself is superb, entirely excellent and Oscar-worthy. Every good Irish-American should see it when it […]

View of Haughey as northern Catholics’ best friend still holds

Posted By: August 04, 2016

Dr Pat Walsh. Irish News.(Belfast). Thursday, August 4, 2016 Ignoring the vitriol in Robert McNamara’s review of Catastrophe and Resurgence: The Catholic Predicament in Northern Ireland (July 28) let me get straight to the point. Dr McNamara ridicules my argument that Britain established “an arena for communal conflict in the Six Counties that it hoped […]

Time for Protestants within the Church of Ireland to wake up to their slide into blasphemous Catholicism

Posted By: August 03, 2016

  Recently, First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster criticized Fr. Sean Mc Manus for saying that —despite progress in Northern Ireland— there is still deep anti-Catholic bigotry. Now comes this letter in the Belfast Telegraph —still often referred to as  the “ main Protestant  paper” in Northern Ireland— that seems to validate Fr. Mc […]

Southern leaders taking sudden interest in united Ireland

Posted By: August 01, 2016

“By and large, the southern establishment and indeed its British counterpart has lost very little sleep over The North in recent year. Deaglan de Breadun . Irish News (Belfast).Monday, August 1, 2016LEAVE aside Amhrán na bhFiann and forget God Save the Queen, because the real anthem these days on the British-Irish scene should be Paul Brady’s Nobody Knows.Meanwhile, keep a grain of salt […]

We need more detail on post-Brexit border arrangements

Posted By: August 01, 2016

Irish News. Editorial (Belfast). July 28, 2016  In the two weeks since she assumed the office of prime minister, Theresa May has been on a whistle-stop tour of engagements with key players keen to hear how she intends to navigate the UK’s exit from the EU.Having already visited Scotland and Wales, Mrs May arrived in Belfast on Monday where she […]

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