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Independent review needed

Posted By: November 23, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial. Tuesday, November 22, 2016The major concerns surrounding the publicly funded body Charter NI have now moved well beyond the future of its embattled chief executive Dee Stitt and reached a stage where some form of independent review of the entire debacle has become essential.Yesterday the assembly Speaker Robin Newton, a DUP MLA, apologized “unreservedly” for his role in the latest […]

Given time, Arlene will help the Nationalist cause

Posted By: November 23, 2016

C McGeough. Letters to Editor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Nationalist critics of DUP leader should not despair a great deal at the lack of vision or type of stone-age politics Arlene Foster portrays.Mrs. Foster is hewn from the same material as many of her unionist predecessors like Craig, Brookeborough and Paisley and her attitude will have the same […]

SDLP remains opposed to Brexit and triggering of Article 50

Posted By: November 23, 2016

 Margaret Ritchie. Letters to Editor. Irish News (Belfast). Opposed to Brexit and triggering of Article 50  Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Behind their confident talk and premature self-congratulations, one senses that the Brexiteers of Westminster are troubled. Already they can see that Britain outside of the EU will not be the land they have promised, and little can they rely on the […]

Crunching the numbers for Irish unity

Posted By: November 23, 2016

 Anthony Neeson. Irish Echo.  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 been an “economic cul de sac for Ireland; north and south.”His intervention will be viewed as significant as the Sinn Féin […]

Charter NI controversy should not overshadow positive contribution by loyalist paramilitary figures: Martin McGuinness

Posted By: November 22, 2016

“There are many people who were formerly associated with the UDA… who have made very powerful and positive contributions to peacemaking  and to the work of reconciliation.”Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, November 22, 2016The controversy around alleged UDA boss Dee Stitt should not overshadow the positive contribution being made by many loyalist paramilitary figures, Martin McGuinness has said.Stormont’s deputy first minister said […]

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