Posted By: March 11, 2017
Patrick Murphy.Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 11, 2017 Unionism is facing more than an electoral crisis. Its real challenge now is to define what it stands for. Until it does so, it has no conceptual basis for handling a changing political agenda, which is increasingly influenced by events beyond its control and, sometimes, beyond its understanding.Its first step must be to distinguish between […]
Posted By: March 10, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus Will Scholes. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, March 10, 2017BOTTLES of white grape Shloer unopened, tray bakes untouched and faux lace-trimmed paper tablecloths still wrapped in cellophane: few tableaux of disappointment can have ever looked as forlorn as that laid out in the refectory at DUP headquarters when realization dawned that, on its watch, Unionism had […]
Posted By: March 10, 2017
Nuala O’Loan. Irish Catholic.Dublin. Thursday, March 9, 2017The votes have been counted and Northern Ireland is in something of a state of shock. Last week Unionists had a 16-seat majority over nationalists in the Assembly. Now, just over a week later, Nationalism has a total of 39 seats to unionism’s 40 seats. However the DUP, by a majority of one, […]
Posted By: March 10, 2017
Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, March 10, 2017RELATIVES of people killed in the McGurk’s Bar bombing have asked Attorney General John Larkin to order a new inquest into the atrocity.Fifteen people were killed when the UVF detonated a bomb in the North Queen Street bar in north Belfast in December 1971.At the time security forces blamed the IRA […]
Posted By: March 09, 2017
Simon Hamilton pictured at Stormont yesterdaySam McBride. News Letter. Thursday, March 9, 2017Just hours before he left office last week, a DUP minister blocked eight separate News Letter “Freedom of Information” [FoI] requests for documents relating to the RHI scheme.Economy Minister Simon Hamilton – who must sign off on each FoI response before civil servants issue it – had not responded to multiple FoI requests […]