Posted By: August 16, 2017
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 16, 2017THE British government is keen to avoid the creation of border posts and a physical frontier with the Republic in its proposals for maintaining free movement after Brexit.In a position paper published today, Whitehall will restate its commitment to a “seamless and frictionless” frontier between North and South, while dismissing a “customs border” in the […]
Posted By: August 15, 2017
Will Sinn Féin’s northern leader MLA Michelle O’Neill take her party back into Stormont? Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, August 15, 20017They brought it on themselves, and neither has a clue how to escape. Sinn Féin in the north is only saved from looking worse because the DUP is so awful.Under Peter Robinson and now Arlene […]
Posted By: August 14, 2017
We swapped authoritarian Catholicism for totalitarian proselytizing atheismJoe O’Toole.IrishTimes.Dublin. Monday, August 14, 2017 It was a strange epiphany in the unlikely setting of the local refuse recycling center in a small French town.I was intending to drop off some stuff but was surprised to find the facility locked up even though it was mid-afternoon of a working day. The […]
Posted By: August 14, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “As I keep saying, George W. did not invent waterboarding.The British Government used it on Catholics in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.Members of Congress must speak out against this torture, as explained by Dr. Féilim Ó hAdhmaill, whom I know.”—Fr. Sean Mc Manus Torture was ‘the norm’ in […]
Posted By: August 14, 2017
Andrew Madden. Irish News. August 14, 2017 INTRIGUING LINK: From left, Jimmy Magill who won three Irish middleweight boxing titles, three ABA titles and three European police titles before retiring in the late 1930s; William Hutchinson, who was seriously injured during the Second World War; former Olympic boxing silver medalist and German army captain […]