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UN report: Security cannot override state’s obligations to information

Posted By: November 21, 2016

John Manley. Irish Times (Belfast). Monday, November 21, 2016 Relatives of Fergal McCusker (28) was shot dead by the LVF in Maghera in January 1998 at a gathering of bereaved families at Stormont to hand a letter of Protest to the Secretary of State James Brokenshire warning of legal action over ongoing legacy inquest delays […]

Secretary of State James Brokenshire under spotlight over legacy issues

Posted By: November 21, 2016

  Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire  John Manley. Irish News (Belfast).  Monday, November 21, 2016  THE Secretary of State has come under renewed pressure to break the deadlock on dealing with the past. A freshly published report on legacy by UN Special Rapporteur Pablo de Greiff, coupled with a Pat Finucane Centre advertisement in The […]

The Irish-American vote – fifty years a-growing

Posted By: November 21, 2016

Peter Kelly. Ulster Herald. Thursday, November 10, 2016Traditionally the Irish vote in America has mostly ‘gone Democrat’. This week’s shock presidential and congressional election triumphs by Republicans signals no more taken-for-granted demographic voter blocs in US politics.It’s over half a century since Ireland’s revered favorite US President, John F. Kennedy broke through the ceiling of Irish-immigrant-to-Oval-Office. The new ‘Kennedy Camelot’ with all its thrilling […]

MC CORD VICTORY

Posted By: November 21, 2016

At the heart of Europe for another 1400 years

Posted By: November 20, 2016

In rainy Brussels to update member states on progress of Peace and INTERREG programs and to press for continued support   NewBelfast.comBlog of Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. Sunday, November 20, 2016For all its oft-publicised flaws, there is something enormously redemptive about the European Union in session.Indeed, as I watched the General Affairs Council of Europe in action in […]