Posted By: January 10, 2017
Martin McGuinness is to stand down as deputy first minister and trigger a new assembly election.It follows a row between Sinn Féin and the DUP over a green energy scheme that has landed the taxpayer with an estimated bill of £490 million over the next 20 years.Mr McGuinness made repeated calls for First Minister Arlene Foster to stand aside while […]
Posted By: January 09, 2017
Sammy Wilson’s woeful attempts to gloss over it as some kind of blip is characteristic of the bombast we have come to expect from the DUP’s Falstaff. Picture by Matt BohillTom Kelly. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, January 9, 2017THE American politician and one-time presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, once criticized the US secretary of state, John Dulles by […]
Posted By: January 09, 2017
Irish Republican News <repnews-reply@irlnet.com Monday, January 9, 2016 Sinn Fein’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has resigned in protest at unionist arrogance and intransigence, collapsing the Stormont Executive and throwing a question mark over power-sharing and the political process in the north of Ireland. The move was not unexpected as Sinn Fein had warned on […]
Posted By: January 09, 2017
Arlene Foster is solicitor by profession and began her political career while studying law at Queen’s University Belfast where she joined the Unionist AssociationDavid Young, Press Association. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, January 9, 2017A POLITICAL inferno around a green boiler scheme is to remove Arlene Foster from her once seemingly unassailable job as First Minister.Less than six weeks […]
Posted By: January 09, 2017
Foyle SDLP MP Mark Durkan. DER1815MC134Kevin Mullan. News Letter. Belfast. Monday, January 9, 2017Foyle MP Mark Durkan has blamed First Minister Arlene Foster for fueling uncertainty over the Stormont institutions, the forthcoming budget, and Brexit, and acknowledged Martin McGuinness was left no choice but to resign on Monday over her refusal not to step aside for the duration of an […]