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Government entitled to use royal prerogative to exit the EU, court hears

Posted By: October 06, 2016

The Irish News, Thursday, October 6, 2016.Raymond McCord at Belfast High Court. Picture by Hugh Russell.THE British government is legally entitled to use royal prerogative powers tocarry out the people’s will to quit the European Union, the High Court heard yesterday.A judge was told the power is “common currency” in making and withdrawing from international treaties […]

Ó Muilleoir: I knew zilch, nada, nothing of Jamie Bryson back channel

Posted By: October 06, 2016

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, October 6, 2016  Finance minister Máirtín Ã? Muilleoir at yesterdayâ??s finance committee session. Right, loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson appeared before the Stormont committee last year. FINANCE minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has again insisted he had no knowledge of the back-channel involving party colleague Daithí McKay and loyalist Jamie Bryson in the Nama ‘coaching’ […]

McGuinness meets Loughinisland familie

Posted By: October 06, 2016

Claire Simpson. Irish News (Belfast).Thursday, October 6, 2016 Above, Martin McGuinness meeting the Loughinisland families at the Heights Bar in the Co Down village of Loughinisland. Right, Some of the Loughinisland families watching the Republic play Belgium at Euro 2016 DEPUTY First Minister Martin McGuinness last night met the families of those killed in the Loughinisland massacre to discuss […]

I will not go to services involving Catholic canon says Orangeman

Posted By: October 06, 2016

Gareth McKeown.Irish News (Belfast).Thursday, October 6, 2016 A senior Orangeman has insisted he will not attend any service at Belfast’s St Anne’s Cathedral involving its new Catholic canon.Assistant grand master Rev Mervyn Gibson said he was opposed to the installation of Fr Edward O’Donnell as the first priest to serve on the Church of Ireland cathedral’s governing chapter.However, the Presbyterian minister, right, said he […]

Deplorable anti-Irish bigotry encouraged

Posted By: October 05, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by the Irish National Caucus   “Finally, don’t forget no DUP politician has ever endorsed sharing power with nationalists or republicans, or ‘rogues and renegades’ as Arlene Foster blurted out. She’s photographed last week with a caption describing the men alongside her as members of the UDA, an illegal organization that preys on the Unionist community but […]

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