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Game of chicken has come home to roost

Posted By: January 14, 2017

Newton Emerson. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 14, 2017 Simon Hamilton, Economy Minister, and Arlene FosterSo the game of chicken about heating sheds full of chickens has come home to roost. The DUP clearly did not think Sinn Féin would walk and is now rather desperately trying to avoid an election. However, while Arlene Foster’s approval rating has […]

DUP backs Brexit but deliberations on the future of Irish border could end up aiding Sinn Fein ambition

Posted By: January 13, 2017

DUP backs Brexit, but deliberations on the future of Irish border could end up aiding Sinn Fein ambitions Malachi O’Doherty. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, January 13, 2017Sinn Fein acts and sounds now like a party that can contentedly lose Stormont. Clearly, there will be some cost to the party in lost jobs and funding, but it is facing into the current […]

Arlene Foster ‘should have resigned’ over RHI, former NIO adviser claims

Posted By: January 13, 2017

DUP leader Arlene Foster at party headquarters in Belfast earlier this week.  Picture by Niall Carson, Press AssociationClaire Simpson. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, January 13, 2017A FORMER Northern Ireland Office special adviser has said Arlene Foster should have resigned over the cash-for-ash scandal.Kevin Meagher, who was an adviser to former Secretary of State Shaun Woodward under the last Labour […]

Sinn Féin believes Assembly election will suit party’s interests

Posted By: January 13, 2017

Arlene Foster will put pressure on voters to keep First Minister’s office in DUP handsPat Leahy. Irish Times. Dublin. Friday, January 13, 2017Martin McGuinness and Arlene Foster: Given the sectarian nature of much voting, the DUP will not bleed votes to Sinn Féin. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/PacemakerIt seems certain now. The Irish and British governments have more or less accepted that an Assembly […]

McGuinness put us on path to a better future

Posted By: January 13, 2017

Alex Kane. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 13, 2017The surest way of evaluating a political career is by contrasting the beginning with the end: measuring the early dreams and ambitions against the tangible legacy.So, when Martin McGuinness stepped down as Deputy First Minister—crashing the entire system as he closed the door behind him—it would be tempting to conclude that, after ten years […]

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