Posted By: November 12, 2016
John Fallon and Daragh Smal. Irish Independent.Friday, November 11, 2016Ireland should continue to commemorate 1916 in the years ahead despite the centenary celebrations concluding, says Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Mr Kenny, who officially opened the €5m Padraig Pearse tourism centre in Connemara before attending a centenary conference in NUI Galway, said the date should be honoured forever.He said: “I think it’s […]
Posted By: November 12, 2016
BBC (Belfast). Friday, November 11, 201611 November 2016 The DUP has been accused of “hatred” towards the Irish language following a decision to stop the translation of correspondence from the Department of Education. It comes after DUP minister Peter Weir adopted a new policy which makes clear “the principal language is English”.Official letters had previously been written in English, […]
Posted By: November 12, 2016
First Minister Arlene Foster said the former DETI were to blame for the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast).Saturday, November 12, 201612 November 2016 01:00BARELY noticed amid this week’s Washington bombshell, Stormont has begun examining the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme – the £1 billion fiasco that mainly occurred under Arlene Foster’s tenure as minister for enterprise.Testifying before the assembly’s […]
Posted By: November 12, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, November 12, 2016 YOU can blame the US electorate if you want, but the people who propelled Donald Trump to the presidency (apart from Hillary Clinton) were the same two people who led the British electorate to Brexit. They were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.Following the collapse of European communism in the 1980s, their economic policies were based […]
Posted By: November 11, 2016
Unionist backlash after church leader says bonfires “a means to pass on sins of the father”Allan Preston. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, November 11, 2016 The leader of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has been criticized after he condemned community bonfires as sinful.Speaking at the 2016 Ulster University Chaplaincy Lecture in Belfast, Dr. Frank Sellar described the annual events […]
