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Stormont “ lacks confidence in dealing with victim’s issues”

Posted By: November 24, 2016

Lesley-Anne McKeown. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, November 2016The Stormont executive appears to lack confidence in dealing with victims’ issues, the victims’ commissioner has said.Outlining concerns over the absence of a specific reference to victims in the draft program for a government (PfG), Judith Thompson also warned that failure to address the legacy of the past was having a toxic impact.“[I am] […]

Family of man accuse PSNI of “conspiracy of silence” in death of west Belfast father

Posted By: November 24, 2016

John Hemsworth died in January 1998 six months after he said members of the RUC had attacked him as he made his way home from St. Gall’s GAA club. The family of John Hemsworth has accused police officers of being part of a “conspiracy of silence”.Mr. Hemsworth’s daughter Danielle welcomed the Police Ombudsman’s findings last night but said […]

Parades body reappointed

Posted By: November 23, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “The Orange Order is the ‘super’ pro-British organization in Northern Ireland— as long as the British Government permits it to flaunt its Protestant supremacy by parading through poor Catholic neighborhoods, playing offensive and anti-Catholic tunes. The moment the British Government tries to restrict this offensive behavior (the […]

Ten years on: Stone’s Stormont attack was inevitable, says biographer

Posted By: November 23, 2016

Martin Dillon. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday,  November 23, 2016 Stormont security staff struggle with convicted loyalist killer Michael Stone in November 2006. Pic Mal McCann Lenny Murphy, leader of the Shankill Butchers. partner or pawn?: Far left, Michael Stone brandishing a pistol in Milltown cemetery Belfast in 1988 in a gun and grenade attack on […]

Crunching the numbers for Irish unity

Posted By: November 23, 2016

North Finance Minister Máirtin Ó Muilleoir (left) with New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Anthony Neeson. Irish Echo. Tuesday, November 22, 2016   Northern Ireland’s Finance Minister has called for an end to partition, saying that it is now time to talk about Irish unity. Writing in the journal.ie, Máirtin Ó Muilleoir said partition has […]

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