Posted By: September 14, 2016
OLDEST IRISH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER IN USA, ESTABLISHED IN 1928 Echo News–September 14-20 , 2016, page 7 Caucus cites British ‘spying’ on Irish America By Irish Echo Staff Fr. Sean Mc Manus It was a time rife with intrigue. Now some of that intrigue has come to light with the release of long shelved state papers […]
Posted By: September 14, 2016
Deborah McAleese. Belfast Telegraph. Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Director of Public Prosecutions [DPP] Barra McGrory has warned that if the alleged activities of Freddie Scappaticci are proved they will open up “an appalling vista of collusion by the state.”The PSNI launched an investigation into claims of security force collusion in at least 24 murders connected to the activities of Scappaticci, the alleged […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
For more than 100 years, Britain has been perpetually at war. Some conflicts, such as the Falklands, have become central to our national narrative, but others, including the brutal suppression of rebels in Oman, have been deliberately hiddenby Ian Cobain. The Guardian.Thursday, September 8, 2016In the months after the surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945, the British people were ready to believe that war was […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
Alex Massie. The Spectator. Sunday, September 11, 2016Unlike the boss, I thought Liam Fox’s comments on fat and lazy British businesses that could be exporting more but aren’t because, well, an afternoon on the golf course is more comfortable than striving for Britain were deplorable. But they were also telling.Because they were a further confirmation that the United Kingdom now has a nationalist government. The liberal Toryism of […]
Posted By: September 12, 2016
This Editorial in today’s Irish News of Belfast further points out the apparently endless implications of Brexit. And further reveals that English leaders themselves do not even know what they have wrought in their right-wing surge of English nationalism— and in their “to hell with the consequence “-attitude for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.It is […]