Posted By: August 26, 2017
The fact that an Ulster-Scots language does not exist is neither here nor there. Newton Emerson. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, August 26, 2017AS the Western world is gripped by statue-toppling hysteria, Northern Ireland turns out to be a beacon of reason amid the maelstrom.We have had the argument over contentious civic symbols before, obviously – in the main at local council level. Having […]
Posted By: August 26, 2017
Danny Morrison said relations in the executive began deteriorating when Peter Robinson pulled the plug on the Maze-Long Kesh peace centre. John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, August 26, 2017SINN Féin’s former director of publicity believes Stormont is facing an “existential crisis” and there is little prospect of Republicans returning to an executive in the near future.Danny Morrison’s bleak assessment of the […]
Posted By: August 26, 2017
Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, August 26, 2017THE PSNI has been denied permission to appeal a High Court order for disclosure of files held on a loyalist informer at the centre of alleged state collusion withparamilitary killers.A judge refused leave to seek to overturn his autumn deadline for police to produce all relevant documents in two major legal actions. But lawyers […]
Posted By: August 25, 2017
Éamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, August 25, 2017 DUP politician Peter Robinson believed the union was “finished.” Among the files released today is a confidential report by an NIO official on a meeting with Mr. Robinson, deputy leader of the DUP at the time. Danny McNeill, in a ‘note for the record’ dated October […]
Posted By: August 25, 2017
Irish Echo Staff. Irish Echo. Thursday, August 24, 2017, Irish Echo Staff Sean O’Callaghan, a onetime IRA member who became an informer, and then wrote about his experiences in a book entitled “The Informer,” has died.O’Callaghan, who was described in reports as both 62 and 63, died in Jamaica, reportedly while swimming in a swimming pool.He was visiting his daughter, […]