Posted By: November 03, 2016
STARK OUTLOOK: Sinn Féinpresident Gerry yAdams and Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness arrive at the Dublin Brexit talks BREXIT is potentially bigger than the peace process for Ireland, Martin McGuinness has warned. The deputy first minister said the UK decision to leave the EU is the “major crisis of our time.” “I’ve been involved in […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Gareth McKeown.Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 2, 2016An all-Ireland forum on Brexit will take place today in Dublin without First Minister Arlene Foster and the biggest party in the north, the DUP.The all-day event in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham has been organised by Taoiseach Enda Kenny to discuss the fall-out from the EU referendum result, but unionist parties will be […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Andrew Madden. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 2, 2016ARLENE Foster has faced a backlash over suggestions a Stormont committee was to blame for a failed green energy scheme that will cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.The department for enterprise, trade, and investment (Deti) had implemented the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme in 2012.It was suspended in February of this […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Gareth McKeown. Irish News ( Belfast).Wednesday, November 2, 2016INVEST NI has said it briefed First Minister Arlene Foster on the Republic’s “poaching” of investment while on an American trade mission without Martin McGuinness.It has been normal practice for the two joint heads of the Northern Ireland Executive to visit the US together, but in September Mrs. Foster embarked on a four-day […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 2, 2016 It wasn’t very edifying, was it, the DUP conference, that is?The low point was the party leader’s speech lashing out in all directions except one – Sinn Féin – to hide the fact that she had nothing to say.You might have noticed that the only person interviewed on BBC NI […]