Posted By: March 07, 2017
Loyalist paramilitaries’ failure to make a political impact is in stark contrast to old foes Jim McDowell. Belfast Telegraph.Monday, March 6, 2017I pushed the security buzzer on the front door of the loyalist ex-prisoners’ aid and advice center in north Belfast. They took a long, hard look at me on the security camera inside.Eventually, one of them came down to the […]
Posted By: March 07, 2017
Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, March 7, 2017. DUP MP Ian Paisley has said it is time for humble pie to be served and eaten.The North Antrim MP, speaking on Sky News, said politicians needed to move beyond the past and resolve their differences. It comes as DUP MLAs will meet for the first time since the election last week in […]
Posted By: March 07, 2017
By David Gordon.Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, March 7, 2017As Arlene Foster and the DUP survey their post-election surroundings, they may perhaps find some wisdom in the finely-honed words of Bono and U2.‘You’ve got to get yourself together,You’ve got stuck in a moment,And now you can’t get out of it.’Those who imagined the DUP leader would meekly walk away after a damaging […]
Posted By: March 07, 2017
Fionnuala O Connor. Irish News. Tuesday, Saturday, March 7, 2017It could, of course, be a temporary thing. The DUP may pull themselves together, replace a damaged Arlene Foster with someone capable of re-thinking unionism, someone flexible and magnanimous.This would be good, if hard to imagine.There is another possibility. Sinn Féin might play this all wrong, settle for too little, […]
Posted By: March 07, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus David Trimble led the Ulster Unionists from 1995 to 2005News Letter. Belfast. Monday, March 6, 2017One of the men who helped set up the Stormont Assembly has said DUP “foolishness” and Arlene Foster’s failure to be polite are to blame for the drop in unionists’ electoral fortunes.David Trimble, former […]
