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Hard Brexit will not be as easy as some “May” think

Posted By: October 03, 2016

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, October 3, 2016Well, now you know. It’s going to be ‘hard Brexit’ as they call it. Repealing the 1972 European Communities Act means repudiating the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and all the obligations of membership of the EU. Theresa May yesterday emphatically placed the ability to block free movement of people above […]

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Following the leader with the media

Posted By: October 02, 2016

By Jude Collins. Belfast Media.Friday, September 30, 2016 IF there’s one thing unionist politicians enjoy doing, it’s telling republicans who should represent them (republicans, that is). We got a lot of this during the years when the Orange Order thought that it had an unfettered right to march where it chose: if there was to […]

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Britain to trigger Article 50 by end of March 2017

Posted By: October 02, 2016

RTE. Sunday , October 2, 2016A timeline has been put in place for Britain’s formal exit from the European Union.Prime Minister Theresa May announced in an interview on the BBC that Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty would be triggered before the end of March 2017.Article 50 sets a maximum two-year clock ticking until a country’s departure […]

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Poppy used in tribute to UDA man who killed Battle of Britain vet

Posted By: October 02, 2016

 Evan Short. Belfast Media.Friday,  September 30, 2016 The niece of a Battle of Britain veteran murdered by the UDA says the poppy has been “debased” by its inclusion in a tribute to a sectarian killer.And this week the Royal British Legion moved to distance itself from a new mural dedicated to notorious gunman Stephen McKeag on the Shankill.McKeag was a […]

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Let’s talk about union but without unionists

Posted By: October 01, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News.(Belfast). Saturday, October 1, 2016Oh good, we are going to have an all-Ireland conversation. Enda Kenny announced it in the Dáil this week, so it must be a good idea. No, I do not know what an all-Ireland conversation is (although I have had conversations about this evening’s all-Ireland) but apparently it has to do with the UK’s […]

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