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Kincora house master preyed on new boys

Posted By: June 04, 2016

Lesley-Anne McKeown. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 4, 2016Former residents at Kincora Boys’ Home have claimed that after sexually assaulting boys, house master Raymond McGrath would walk away laughingVULNERABLE children were sexually assaulted just weeks after arriving at Kincora Boys’ Home, a public inquiry has heard.Detailed and graphic accounts of a litany of abuse by staff members during the 1970s were given […]

Britain Is Losing Its Religion, or at Least Its Official One

Posted By: June 04, 2016

By ALAN COWELL     JUNE. New York Times, 2, 2016A Christmas Day service at Canterbury Cathedral last year. Across Britain, pews that fill for the holidays are often half-empty in the intervening weeks and months. Credit Chris Ratcliffe/Getty ImagesLONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely scrutinized and the nation’s […]

Mc Cord Victory

Posted By: June 02, 2016

Mc Cord Victory Raymond Mc Cord,  a brave Protestant Belfast man, is one of the heroes of the Troubles. He has faught a lone, one -man battle to expose how the British Government and police colluded in covering up the murder of his son, Raymond, Jr. in 1997. The Irish National Caucus was proud to […]

Very fact of Assembly weakening the union

Posted By: June 02, 2016

Newton Emerson.Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, May 2, 2016Nationalist unease over Sinn Féin’s apparent weakness at Stormont ignores how the mere existence of Stormont weakens unionism itself.This is something I am aware of because of my age – I have no memory of the previous Stormont or the Sunningdale executive and was almost 30 when devolution was restored.Growing up under direct rule was […]

Peter Hain tells secretary of state to stop freelancing over Brexit

Posted By: June 02, 2016

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, June 2, 2016SECRETARY of State Theresa Villiers has been bluntly told she is wrong in her claims that a Brexit would not lead to border controls.One of her predecessors, Peter Hain, last night added his voice to senior figures in politics and public life who have warned of the impact in Ireland of a ‘leave’ vote […]

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