Posted By: November 02, 2016
Andrew Madden. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 2, 2016ARLENE Foster has faced a backlash over suggestions a Stormont committee was to blame for a failed green energy scheme that will cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.The department for enterprise, trade, and investment (Deti) had implemented the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme in 2012.It was suspended in February of this […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Gareth McKeown. Irish News ( Belfast).Wednesday, November 2, 2016INVEST NI has said it briefed First Minister Arlene Foster on the Republic’s “poaching” of investment while on an American trade mission without Martin McGuinness.It has been normal practice for the two joint heads of the Northern Ireland Executive to visit the US together, but in September Mrs. Foster embarked on a four-day […]
Posted By: November 02, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, November 2, 2016 It wasn’t very edifying, was it, the DUP conference, that is?The low point was the party leader’s speech lashing out in all directions except one – Sinn Féin – to hide the fact that she had nothing to say.You might have noticed that the only person interviewed on BBC NI […]
Posted By: November 01, 2016
A champion of the Mac Bride Principles CAPITOL HILL. Wednesday, November 2, 2016—— Tom Hayden (76) who died on October 23 will not only be remembered as the 1960s and 1970s peace activist, but also as an ardent Irishman. This according to Fr. Sean Mc Manus, President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus. […]
Posted By: November 01, 2016
John Horgan. Irish Times. Tuesday, November 1, 2016Rev Ian Paisley, a militant Protestant leader, on one of his many anti-Catholic protest marches.It is, perhaps, a sign of the times that when rumours circulated some months ago that Pope Francis was not only going to visit Ireland at some future date but might include The North in his itinerary, the […]
