Posted By: January 09, 2017
Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene FosterRachel Cunliffe. The Spectator. January 5, 2017(Rachel Cunliffe is the deputy editor of Reaction). Let’s say you’re a rising minister put in charge of the department for enterprise. You have the great idea to incentivize businesses to invest in low-carbon energy by offering a subsidy for renewable fuel used. Unfortunately, something goes wrong in the […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Brendan Hughes. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 7, 2016HE may have hoped to “clear the air, ” but Máirtín Ó Muilleoir ended up considerably raising the heat in Sinn Féin’s rhetoric over the renewable heat scandal.The Finance Minister denounced the DUP’s plans to curb losses from the botched scheme as a “sticking plaster” following talks on Thursday with economy minister Simon Hamilton.“Be clear on […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Jonny Bell. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, January 6, 2017 Arlene Foster has faced calls to step asidePublic confidence in Arlene Foster’s leadership has slumped since the Renewable Heating Incentive debacle erupted, a poll suggests.Before the eruption of the RHI scandal, Mrs. Foster’s leadership was rated the best of all the five parties in a representative poll of the Northern Ireland […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Gerry Adams remarks are the latest in a series of verbal ultimatums from senior Sinn Féin figures aimed at the DUP leader. By David Young, Press Association. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 7, 2017Gerry Adams has made clear Sinn Fein will not back down from its demand for Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster to stand aside to allow a probe […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Claire Sugden said Arlene Foster has handled the RHI scandal appallingly. Picture by Niall Carson, Press AssociationJohn Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 7, 2017JUSTICE minister Claire Sugden has accused her government partners of putting party political interests ahead of the public interest.Speaking for the first time since the assembly last sat before Christmas, the independent unionist MLA […]
