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Northern Ireland is not on radar of UK government, Fianna Fáil warns

Posted By: October 22, 2016

Niall O’Connor and Colm Kelpie.Irish Independent. October 17, 2016Fianna Fáil has strongly criticized British Prime Minister Theresa May after it emerged that her powerful Brexit cabinet committee has no permanent slot for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire.Mr. Brokenshire will instead attend meetings of the committee, which is mapping out Britain’s exit from the European Union, at the request […]

Loyalist-linked groups paid from poverty fund

Posted By: October 22, 2016

Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast). October 22, 2016 Concern continues to grow about loyalist-linked groups benefitting from Stormont’s Social Investment Fund. However, a wider threat is being missed. The £80 million fund is part of the Executive Office’s overall anti-poverty and cohesion strategy, another key part of which is the £45 million urban villages program. This will build clusters of commercial units in deprived parts […]

Don’t Vote For Change—You Just Won’t Get It

Posted By: October 22, 2016

“Which brings us to Stormont. Eighteen years after the new power-sharing assembly began, 100,000 children here live in poverty. Despite Catholic parties in government, over 30 per cent of children in west Belfast remain in poverty and Derry and Strabane still have the highest unemployment rates.”   Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Saturday, October 22, 2016If voting made any difference they probably wouldn’t let […]

EXCLUSIVE: UDA men break code of silence to tell of membership hell

Posted By: October 22, 2016

 NewsBy Steven Moore. Saturday, October 22, 2016The UDA is today exposed – by its own men – as a brutal money-making machine hooked on violence.In an unprecedented glimpse inside the UDA, terror group members reveal the fascist-like regime that forces them to hand over membership fees, dish out beatings to their own and force families from their homes.The paramilitary code of […]

Hard landing – prospects of a soft Brexit look remote

Posted By: October 22, 2016

The pound fell dramatically from 76p against euro to 81p on 24 June, immediately after the referendum result became clear David Murphy. RTE (Dublin). Friday, October  21, 2016.It’s five months since Britain voted to leave the EU.The Brexit result stunned the markets. But the immediate question was: What would the UK quitting really mean?So far nobody knows. But there has been a significant impact […]

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