Posted By: October 02, 2016
RTE. Sunday , October 2, 2016A timeline has been put in place for Britain’s formal exit from the European Union.Prime Minister Theresa May announced in an interview on the BBC that Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty would be triggered before the end of March 2017.Article 50 sets a maximum two-year clock ticking until a country’s departure […]
Posted By: October 02, 2016
Evan Short. Belfast Media.Friday, September 30, 2016 The niece of a Battle of Britain veteran murdered by the UDA says the poppy has been “debased” by its inclusion in a tribute to a sectarian killer.And this week the Royal British Legion moved to distance itself from a new mural dedicated to notorious gunman Stephen McKeag on the Shankill.McKeag was a […]
Posted By: October 01, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News.(Belfast). Saturday, October 1, 2016Oh good, we are going to have an all-Ireland conversation. Enda Kenny announced it in the Dáil this week, so it must be a good idea. No, I do not know what an all-Ireland conversation is (although I have had conversations about this evening’s all-Ireland) but apparently it has to do with the UK’s […]
Posted By: October 01, 2016
Claire Simpson. Irish News (Belfast).Saturday, October 1, 2016THERE should be no return “to the borders of the past” post-Brexit, British prime minister Theresa May has said.The fate of the Irish border has been plunged into uncertainty since June’s referendum result, with fears for the peace process and economy. Although the UK voted to leave the European Union, 56 percent of people in […]
Posted By: September 29, 2016
Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, September 29, 2016In 2013 a plethora of reporters and I stood for the guts of ten hours at a riot in Woodvale in north Belfast. Ross Kemp was there filming which is never a good sign.While the football tops of those throwing the stones, bottles, bolts and anything else that came to hand, had changed from the […]