Posted By: January 07, 2017
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams addresses party members at the Felons Club in West Belfast. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press EyeBelfast Telegraph. 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 into her role in a botched green energy scheme.The Sinn […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Belfast Telegraph. Saturday, January 17, 2017 Sinn Fein hold a press conference at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in east Belfast to make public its proposed Terms of Reference for the Independent Panel Investigation of the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme. Left to right. Gerry Kelly, Michelle O’Neill and Carl N Chuiln. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press EyeUnder Sinn Fein’s plan for an investigation […]
Posted By: January 07, 2017
Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday , January 7, 2017The cash-for-ash scandal represents a greater challenge for Sinn Féin [SF] than it does for Stormont.In what may be the party’s most pivotal decision since abandoning abstention, Sinn Féin must now decide whether to continue supporting an increasingly discredited Stormont, or to collapse the Assembly and call an election. Both options carry significant […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
Alex Kane. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 6, 2017 What Arlene Foster did in her Sky interview on Wednesday was prepare the ground for an early election.She set out the issues:1) The attacks on her are personal, point scoring and misogynistic;2) Sinn Féin is scared of a strong Unionist leader and want rid of her;3) She […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
Irish Examiner editorial. Cork. Friday, January 6, 2017THE North’s cash-for-ash scandal seems one straight out of the playbook so energetically celebrated by our mohair politicians from some decades ago.Arlene FosterSignificant public funds — €573m — are in jeopardy, if not already lost, but the affair has moved well beyond the waste of public money. It has the capacity to further […]