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Mac Bride-type Investment Campaign Needed for West Belfast

Posted By: August 29, 2016

CAPITOL HILL. Monday, August 29, 2016— Alarming figures regarding the performance ofInvest NI in West Belfast is causing deep concern among Irish-Americans, and on Capitol Hill.The alarm was set off by an Irish News article by Gareth Mc Keown, “Invest NI criticized over ‘economic partition’ of west Belfast businesses” (August 29): “The new figures, released following an assembly question from SDLP MLA […]

Higgins’s reflection on Civil War highlights edgy issues

Posted By: August 27, 2016

President was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sides   Diarmaid Ferriter. Irish Times. Saturday, August 27, 2016 Some of those organising history discussions and conferences for the autumn are keen to keep the conversation about the 1916 centenary going, but with a twist. Next month’s Dublin Festival of History, for example, will host a […]

Film about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands becomes box office hit

Posted By: August 27, 2016

“The Belfast Telegraph — historically no champion of justice and equality for Catholics in Northern Ireland— is reporting in the article below that 66 Days has become ‘ a box office hit and  one of the  most lucrative Northern Irish film ever.’  I am so pleased Bobby Sands has the last word. His sacrifice —and […]

United Ireland debate is back on the agenda

Posted By: August 26, 2016

“Unionists have in the main failed to acknowledge the potential game-changer Brexit is, how it has changed the very nature, the metaphysical character of the United Kingdom, and its profound implications for the current settlement in Northern Ireland which has been predicated on EU membership and a growing all-Ireland economy within the context of an invisible border and a path towards eventual unity if […]

Brooke: Radical act crucial to policies

Posted By: August 25, 2016

Éamon Phoenix. Irish  News (Belfast). Thursday, August 25, 2016NORTHERN Ireland secretary Peter Brooke said implementing the 1989 Fair Employment Act was “crucial to the success of all our NI policies”, declassified files show.In December 1989 he wrote to his predecessor Tom King, then secretary of state for defense, reminding him that he and cabinet colleagues had a responsibility in their departments to […]

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