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Thatcher and Reagan are to blame for Trump and Brexit

Posted By: November 12, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, November 12, 2016 YOU can blame the US electorate if you want, but the people who propelled Donald Trump to the presidency (apart from Hillary Clinton) were the same two people who led the British electorate to Brexit. They were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.Following the collapse of European communism in the 1980s, their economic policies were based […]

Presbyterian moderator Dr. Frank Sellar stands by “sinful” bonfire comments

Posted By: November 11, 2016

Unionist backlash after church leader says bonfires “a means to pass on sins of the father”Allan Preston. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, November 11, 2016 The leader of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has been criticized after he condemned community bonfires as sinful.Speaking at the 2016 Ulster University Chaplaincy Lecture in Belfast, Dr. Frank Sellar described the annual events […]

Donald Trump upsets British, German leaders by talking to Irish leader first

Posted By: November 11, 2016

Donald Trump upsets British, German leaders by talking to Irish leader first IrishCentral Staff@IrishCentral November 11, 2016, 06:08 AM   President-elect Donald Trump ruffles feathers.WIKICOMMONS / GAGE SKIDMORE. President-elect Donald Trump upset the leaders of Britain and Germany when the first congratulatory phone call with a European leader that he took was from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. […]

Boston Officials Honor Ray Flynn by Dedicating Marine Park in His Honor on Saturday, November 12

Posted By: November 11, 2016

http://irishmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2016/11/boston-officials-honor-ray-flynn-by.html November 10, 2016This Saturday, November 12, 2016, state and city officials, business leaders, tourism officials, labor activists, community leaders, family and friends and South Boston neighbors are gathering to officially dedicate the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in the South Boston Seaport District.   The ceremony takes place at 11 a.m. at 660 Summer Street. Among the […]

Ireland first should be reaction to Brexit vote

Posted By: November 09, 2016

Jim Gibney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 9, 2016Despite all the understandable gloom and doom around Brexit and what it actually means,  there is a real chance it could provide a far-reaching change in unexpected circles which could yield democracy to Ireland and Scotland on an unforeseen scale.Since the Brexit vote to leave the EU in June, the partition of Ireland – in […]

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