Posted By: January 06, 2017
David McIlveen said the RHI was designed to “curry favor with the rural electorate” John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 6, 2017The botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) was driven by Arlene Foster’s desire to “curry favor with the rural electorate”, according to a former DUP MLA.David McIlveen broke ranks to heavily criticize the first minister’s handling of a botched green energy […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
Arlene Foster and David McIlveen pictured together last AprilSam McBride.News Letter. Belfast. Thursday, January 5, 2017Former DUP MLA David McIlveen has placed significant blame for what he says is an “almost totalitarian” approach by the party at the feet of unnamed DUP advisors.Mr. McIlveen, whose blunt article in Thursday’s News Letter accused Arlene Foster of having presided over an […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
Brendan Hughes goes in search of the missing minister. Claire Sugden has not commented on the RHI scandal since before Christmas Brendan Hughes. Irish News.Belfast. Friday, January 6, 2016WITH the DUP and Sinn Féin continuing to lock horns over the ‘cash for ash’ affair, it would be easy to forget there’s a third leg to the […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
David Young. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 6, 2017A former DUP politician who quit to join the Ulster Unionists has written to former colleagues urging them to speak out on the RHI scandal.Jenny Palmer left the DUP after accusing it of failing to address her allegation she was pressurized by a party special adviser concerning a furor around social housing contracts.The former DUP […]
Posted By: January 06, 2017
Robin Newton was appointed Assembly speaker last May Susan Thompson. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 6, 2017UNDER-fire Stormont Speaker Robin Newton was lobbying for money for Charter NI just weeks before ruling against an urgent debate on its funding.As pressure mounts on Mr Newton to resign over his handling of last month’s Renewable Heat Incentive debate in the Assembly, The […]