Posted By: December 21, 2016
Fionola Meredith, Belfast Telegraph.Wednesday, December 21, 2016When the DUP is attacked, it comes back harder – a Trump-style tactic that the party traditionally uses when confronted with difficult questions, criticisms or dissent.Arlene Foster is no exception. She may have started off in the woolier ranks of the Ulster Unionist Party, but she’s a true-blue DUP woman at heart, and leadership of […]
Posted By: December 21, 2016
Fionnuala O Connor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, December 20, 2016Difficult days for the power-sharing executive and big pressure is focused directly on Arlene Foster, naturally enough.The DUP has messed up on Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and the opposition, scenting blood, have taken full advantage.But there is also acute pressure on Martin McGuinness at a time when he […]
Posted By: December 20, 2016
Malachi O’Doherty. Belfast Telegraph. Monday, December 20, 2016 Joe Mc Cann Some people tried to make a legend out of Joe McCann. A song was written and sung every Sunday night in a club in Lagan Street to a hushed and reverent silence in the months after his death.‘They murdered our hero, brave Joseph McCann.”Some of his photographs […]
Posted By: December 20, 2016
Irish News (Belfast). Editorial. Tuesday, December 20, 2016Arlene Foster has survived the vote of no confidence and lives to fight another day, but the question is more about what recent events have done to public confidence in our political structures.The first minister is clinging on but is severely damaged. She put up a robust defense of her actions in the Assembly […]
Posted By: December 20, 2016
Newton Emerson. Irish Times. Tuesday, December 20, 2016 Stormont is not important enough to witness Shakespearian tragedies.In terms of Elizabethan playwrights, it is more like Christopher Marlowe, stabbed in a pub while fighting over the bill.On that scale, however, Arlene Foster is on a tragic course. Within months of becoming DUP leader, First Minister, and an election poll-topper, she looks permanently […]