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Loyalist protest group to visit scene of civil rights clash on Bloody Sunday anniversary

Posted By: January 19, 2017

Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, January 20, 2017 A loyalist protest group that previously gloated about the British army killing of 14 people in Derry on Bloody Sunday intends to visit the site where members of the ‘B’ Specials attacked a Civil Rights walk on the anniversary of the massacre.Loyal Peoples Protest (LPP) has said it intends to visit […]

Names of RHI signed up businesses published next week

Posted By: January 19, 2017

Claire Simpson. Irish  News. Belfast. Thursday, January 19, 2017THE names of all businesses who are recipients of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme are to be published next week, the economy minister has said.Simon Hamilton, a DUP MLA, said: “complete openness and transparency” was needed in connection with the botched RHI scheme, which could cost taxpayers up to £490 million.However, he said he […]

DUP Spad ‘pressured officials’ to keep heating scheme open

Posted By: January 19, 2017

Explosive claims made by senior civil servant to Stormont spending watchdogJohn Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, January 19, 2017Andrew CrawfordHEARING: Senior civil servant Andrew McCormick made a series of explosive allegations about the RHI scheme. A DUP special adviser [Spad] pressurized officials to keep Stormont’s botched green energy scheme open even though he knew costs were surging out […]

Declassified CIA files contain notes on North

Posted By: January 19, 2017

Claire Simpson. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, January 19, 2017US intelligence agency the CIA has put hundreds of thousands of declassified records online – including some about the north.The documents, previously only available to the public at the CIA’s National Archives in Maryland, cover several decades and include files on the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War as […]

Foster in spotlight over ex-adviser’s RHI role

Posted By: January 19, 2017

John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, January 19, 2017 Arlene FosterARLENE Foster’s handling of the “cash for ash” scandal is under fresh scrutiny amid claims her former special adviser prevented changes to the scheme to save taxpayers money.In a dramatic development yesterday, the permanent secretary at the Department for the economy said the DUP leader’s adviser influenced a […]

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