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Brexit confusion a real Chinese puzzle

Posted By: October 15, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, October 15, 2016 While the long-term impact of Brexit will be economic, its immediate consequence in both Britain and Ireland is predominantly political. The government in London is re-enacting the Battle of Britain, Dublin’s politicians have re-discovered the Irish border and the Chinese may soon be helping to run Stormont. Welcome to the pre-Brexit world of “What […]

Will Brexit Unravel the Peace in Northern Ireland?

Posted By: October 14, 2016

Jochen Bittner. New York Times.Tuesday, October  11, 2016Jochen Bittner is a political editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and a contributing opinion writer. HAMBURG, Germany — Progress, luckily, is often a self-accelerating force. But what about regression? I’m not alone in worrying about the self-perpetuating cycle of social setbacks; across Europe and America, I encounter more and more people concerned […]

Parting of the ways unlikely

Posted By: October 14, 2016

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast)1. Friday, October 14, 2016AHEAD of last year’s general election all the talk was of the DUP being ‘kingmakers’ in the hung parliament that was expected to emerge.Peter Robinson even had a wish list that would be presented in exchange for the support of his MPs in Westminster. Weeks before the election, David Cameron entertained the DUP’s eight MPs […]

Dublin needs to fight all-Ireland Brexit case

Posted By: October 12, 2016

  “The Irish government has to start making these points explicitly because the Brexiteers in this horrible British government care nothing of the consequences for the North of their Gadarene rush towards a UKIP-lite position. Cutting immigration is the number one priority in order to steal UKIP’s clothes and undermine Labour.”Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, October 12, 2016Charlie Flanagan tells us the […]

Voting rights would help northern nationalists

Posted By: October 12, 2016

Jim Gibney Irish News (Belfast).Wednesday, October 12, 2016The partition of Ireland was a disaster for the people of this nation, nationalist and unionist. It not only fragmented the territorial integrity of the nation but it divided the people and set in motion the emergence of two states which developed back-to-back and separate from one another.Vested interests took over both states with unionists consolidating […]

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