Posted By: August 30, 2017
Hume claimed Molyneaux attempted secret Dublin back-channelJohn Hume claimed Jim Molyneaux wanted him to pass secret messages to the Irish governmentSam McBride. News Letter. Belfast.Tuesday, August 29, 2017The then Ulster Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux wanted to use John Hume as a secret back-channel to Taoiseach Charles Haughey, the SDLP leader claimed in 1991. The claim, contained within files declassified at the Public […]
Posted By: August 30, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus [“At no point in Unionist history has courageous political leadership been shown; instead, encouragement of insurrection and sedition.”] Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 30, 2017. ANOTHER summer is over: another Unionist defeat. This time it’s bonfires. Statues and emblems will follow close behind.Not at all you say. There […]
Posted By: August 30, 2017
Fionnuala O Connor, Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, August 29, 2017 EACH year ‘state papers’ from decades back are released here and in Dublin and each time there is something mildly surprising or, very occasionally, shocking.Is the release worth covering? Oh yes.What governments make public, is no more than the public is due, and almost invariably much less than the whole […]
Posted By: August 30, 2017
A flag supporting the Parachute Regiment has been put up outside St Comgall’s church in Antrim Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 30, 2017The hoisting of a flag glorifying a British army regiment outside a Catholic church in Co. Antrim has been condemned.The flag in support of the Parachute Regiment has been put up on a lamppost outside St […]
Posted By: August 30, 2017
IRA man killed in 1972 was victim of British army ambush Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 30, 2017An IRA man shot dead by the British army almost 45 years ago was the victim of a planned ambush, recently discovered documents reveal.Daniel McAreavey (21) was shot dead at the junction of Bosnia Street and Plevna Street in the lower Falls area following a republican […]
