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Parades body reappointed

Posted By: November 23, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “The Orange Order is the ‘super’ pro-British organization in Northern Ireland— as long as the British Government permits it to flaunt its Protestant supremacy by parading through poor Catholic neighborhoods, playing offensive and anti-Catholic tunes. The moment the British Government tries to restrict this offensive behavior (the […]

Ten years on: Stone’s Stormont attack was inevitable, says biographer

Posted By: November 23, 2016

Martin Dillon. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday,  November 23, 2016 Stormont security staff struggle with convicted loyalist killer Michael Stone in November 2006. Pic Mal McCann Lenny Murphy, leader of the Shankill Butchers. partner or pawn?: Far left, Michael Stone brandishing a pistol in Milltown cemetery Belfast in 1988 in a gun and grenade attack on […]

Crunching the numbers for Irish unity

Posted By: November 23, 2016

North Finance Minister Máirtin Ó Muilleoir (left) with New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Anthony Neeson. Irish Echo. Tuesday, November 22, 2016   Northern Ireland’s Finance Minister has called for an end to partition, saying that it is now time to talk about Irish unity. Writing in the journal.ie, Máirtin Ó Muilleoir said partition has […]

Independent review needed

Posted By: November 23, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial. Tuesday, November 22, 2016The major concerns surrounding the publicly funded body Charter NI have now moved well beyond the future of its embattled chief executive Dee Stitt and reached a stage where some form of independent review of the entire debacle has become essential.Yesterday the assembly Speaker Robin Newton, a DUP MLA, apologized “unreservedly” for his role in the latest […]

Given time, Arlene will help the Nationalist cause

Posted By: November 23, 2016

C McGeough. Letters to Editor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Nationalist critics of DUP leader should not despair a great deal at the lack of vision or type of stone-age politics Arlene Foster portrays.Mrs. Foster is hewn from the same material as many of her unionist predecessors like Craig, Brookeborough and Paisley and her attitude will have the same […]

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