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Martin McGuinness’ resignation letter in full

Posted By: January 09, 2017

Belfast Telegraph. Monday, January 9, 2017 Martin McGuinness signs resignation letter.Martin McGuinness has tendered his resignation to the Assembly Speaker Robin Newton. Read the full text below:Over ten difficult and testing years, in the role of deputy first Minister, I have sought with all my energy and determination to serve all the people of the north and the island of […]

First Minister Arlene Foster says Sinn Féin wrong to play “game of chicken”

Posted By: January 09, 2017

First Minister Arlene Foster and Finance Minister Simon Hamilton.  Picture by Mal McCannMaeve Connolly. Irish News Belfast. January 9, 2017FIRST Minister Arlene Foster says if Sinn Féin is “playing a game of chicken” by calling for her resignation over her role in a botched green energy scheme which could cost the taxpayer £500 million, it is making a mistake.The […]

Eastwood calls on DUP executive to force Arlene Foster to step aside

Posted By: January 09, 2017

Arlene Foster and Colum Eastwood. Kevin Mullan. Londerry Sentinel.Sunday, January 8, 2017 The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has urged senior members of the DUP to force Arlene Foster from her position as First Minister to allow all political industries to be properly directed at the looming Brexit challenge. Mr. Eastwood said it was time for […]

Slaying the sectarian dragon

Posted By: January 09, 2017

Michael Kelly. Irish Catholic. Dublin. December 15, 2017The tone of discussions about the Catholic Church in Ireland increasingly reminds me of growing up in the North surrounded by sectarianism, writes Michael KellyGrowing up in the North in the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see graffiti on walls proclaiming “F*** the Pope”. Hardline unionists seemed to have a pathological fear of all […]

Arlene Foster has gone low in her response to RHI criticism

Posted By: January 09, 2017

First Minister Arlene Foster. Picture by Niall Carson, Press AssociationClaire Simpson. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, January 9, 2017ONE of the best presents I received over Christmas was a copy of US writer Flannery O’Connor’s book of essays, Mystery, and Manners.In a piece about the short story, O’Connor writes of how she lent some stories to a […]

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