Posted By: November 20, 2016
Frances Mulraney@FrancesMulraney. Irish Central. November 20, 2016 Discover whether your family name derives from a location, profession, relationship, or nickname using this newly published dictionary.iStockA name can tell you a lot about a person, but how many of us know the exact meaning and origins of our last names?For instance, did you know that the surname Short may originally have been […]
Posted By: November 19, 2016
Elected Alliance leader last month – only the third woman to lead a major political party in The North – Naomi Long is very much back in the game. The Ginger Ninja talks to Joanne Sweeney about that bruising battle with the DUP, taking time out and how her faith in God keeps her right Naomi Long, Alliance MLA for East […]
Posted By: November 19, 2016
IMPUNITY: Decades after this picture was taken, the UDA is still not facing the full force of the law Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, November 19, 2016 As controversy over funding Loyalist-linked organizations refuses to abate, a UDA member has spoken anonymously to the BBC about the organization’s rampant criminality, its grip on communities and its refusal to let people […]
Posted By: November 19, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday,November 19, 2016. Ireland has discovered a new sin. It is not in the same category as failing to keep holy the Sabbath or coveting your neighbor’s goods, but it is more studiously avoided.This sin is political – well, for Catholics anyway: “Thou shalt not criticize the European Union.”Throughout the post-Brexit debate, Irish nationalist politicians have […]
Posted By: November 19, 2016
“I remember this terrible killing , coming as it did a few days before I left Ireland for America on October 2, 1972. It is so sad that the Rooney family had to listen to lies by the British Army for 44 years.” — Fr. Sean Mc Manus BBC.NI. Friday, November 18, 2016 The body […]