Posted By: December 30, 2016
Ralph Riegel and Adrian Rutherford. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, December 30, 2016. Thatcher and FitzGerald shake hands on the Anglo-Irish Agreement Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told officials from the Republic of Ireland that the UK “got it wrong in 1921” with the Northern Ireland border.A series of extraordinary admissions between Mrs. Thatcher and Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald emerge in previously […]
Posted By: December 30, 2016
In the letter to banks, Arlene Foster asked them to look favorably on businesses who wanted to borrow to install RHI systemsDetails of a letter sent by Arlene Foster to the Province’s most senior bankers in the early days of the catastrophic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme show she promoted it as a “real opportunity for consumers and investors.”The scheme – which […]
Posted By: December 30, 2016
Germany cited as case for how to deal with North if united Ireland chosen in future pollFiach Kelly. Irish Times. Wednesday, December 28, 2016A referendum on Irish unity is allowed for in the Belfast Agreement.The Government is to push for a commitment that Northern Ireland will be given speedy admittance to the European Union in the event of Irish unity.Sources have said the […]
Posted By: December 29, 2016
It’s more likely than you think. Richard Mylles. The New Statesman. Wednesday, December 28, 2016 (Richard Mylles is a political analyst at Absolute Strategy.) Theresa May’s interest is served by keeping Brexit to a series of binary questions in which the alternative to acceding to her will means abandoning Brexit. Will Parliament treat the referendum result as binding though it […]
Posted By: December 29, 2016
News review of 2016: All eyes on Adams as ‘cash for ash’ row becomes burning issue Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times.Wednesday, December 28, 2016It was a MAD year in Northern Ireland and, come 2017; it could get madder.The acronym is mutually assured destruction – the principle that, during the Cold War, kept the world from a nuclear holocaust and, much less dramatically, kept […]