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Rival camps make appeals to electorate

Posted By: June 22, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, June 22, 2016Stephen Farry MLA. Alliance economy spokesmanTomorrow’s referendum vote will have massive and long-lasting implications for Northern Ireland, the UK and the island of Ireland for decades to come.It will also have knock-on effects for the rest of Europe and the rest of the world.At the heart of the matter lies a very […]

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING

Posted By: June 22, 2016

“Members of Congress must ask themselves why would middle-aged men of the anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist, Orange Order want to parade through a poor Catholic area? Members of Congress will know the ready answer from American history :  Why would a White Supremacist group want to swagger and strut through a poor Black area?” — Fr. Sean […]

Sugden: Collusion agents should be held to account

Posted By: June 21, 2016

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, June 21, 2017 STORMONT’S justice minister has broken her silence on the Police Ombudsman’s damning report on the Loughinisland massacre, saying that anyone involved in collusion “should be held accountable”.Claire Sugden’s remarks come as the East Derry MLA prepares today for her first assembly question time as minister.Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire published a report on […]

What’s good for South is good for North

Posted By: June 21, 2016

Letters to the Editor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Taoiseach Enda Kenny has appointed an ‘emigrant senator’ to the Irish Senate to represent the concerns of Irish immigrants in the US – Galway native, Billy Lawless in Chicago. This has been welcomed as a good idea. Well, then – in the interest of […]

Concept of live and let live is beyond the grasp of many Unionists

Posted By: June 21, 2016

“Instead of criticizing the behaviour of their local worthies,  there is silence, broken only by Arlene Foster in a display of pettiness entering the dispute about ‘the north’ versus Norn Irn [Northern Ireland].Is there any danger of her telling Unionists also to use the correct name instead of ‘Ulster’ or the ‘pravince’[ province]?The notion of diversity enshrined in […]

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