Posted By: January 16, 2017
BBC NI. Monday, January 16, 2017 Northern Ireland will go to the polls on 2 March to elect a new Assembly after the power-sharing executive collapsed over a botched green energy scheme. Stormont was plunged into crisis after the resignation of Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister last week.The catalyst was the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which is […]
Posted By: January 16, 2017
Chris Donnelly. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, January 26, 2017The collapse of the power-sharing executive and rapid deterioration in the relationship between the governing partners might have been triggered by the appalling manner in which the DUP handled the unfolding of the RHI scandal, but the root cause relates to the DUP’s hostility to the notion of genuine partnership and the nature […]
Posted By: January 14, 2017
James Wilson. Irish Central. Saturday, January 14, 2017It wasn’t just African-Americans in the Deep South who had reasons to fear the Ku Klux Klan. iStockFather James Coyle was a heroic Irish priest murdered by Edwin Stephenson – a member of the Ku Klux Klan – mere hours after he had married Stephenson’s daughter to a former Puerto Rican employee of his.Born in […]
Posted By: January 14, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus“Stormont’s flawed system emerged from the SDLP’s flawed analysis in the early 1970s that the problem here was one of two conflicting identities, later hardened under the Belfast agreement into two separate nations. It was derived from the British claim that they were here to keep two warring factions apart.” Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. […]
Posted By: January 14, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “ Nuala O’Loan, one of the heroines of The Troubles—a brave and brilliant Englishwoman.” —Fr. Sean Mc Manus Northern Ireland’s first police ombudsman, Nuala O’Loan, has gained an international reputation for her work in uncovering the truth behind some of the Troubles’ worst atrocities. As she continues to […]