Posted By: November 11, 2017
Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, November 11, 2017If you are wondering what the future holds for Stormont, keep an eye on Sinn Féin’s ard fheis next weekend.In what will be the party’s most significant gathering in recent years, watch for three things: the ard fheis decision on abortion; the nature and content of any references to Fine Gael and, […]
Posted By: November 10, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus If the then First Minister had agreed to stand aside for a week or two…I’m pretty sure she would still be First Minister today. … The Assembly and Executive wouldn’t have collapsed. There would have been no throwaway lines about crocodiles and Sinn Féin wouldn’t have been able to galvanize and mobilize an angry Republican/Nationalist […]
Posted By: November 10, 2017
Adams urges Irish America to help secure border poll.Allison Morris. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, November 9, 2017GERRY Adams has called on Irish America to help secure a border poll on Irish unity within the next five years.Speaking in New York at the annual Friends of Sinn Féin dinner, the party president spoke about “generational change” with hopes for a […]
Posted By: November 10, 2017
Funeral of Dubliner who blew up Nelson’s Pillar Irish News. Belfast. Friday, November 10, 2017THE man who blew up Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin was a “committed republican right up until his last breath”, mourners at his funeral heard.Father-of-seven Liam Sutcliffe (84), from Dublin, died last Friday.His funeral took place at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in […]
Posted By: November 10, 2017
20 years on from the Loughinisland Massacre hundreds of local people and family members take part in a candlelight vigil to remember their loved ones who were murdered when a UVF death squad in collusion with British State forces murdered 6 local men in the Heights bar in the village in 1994 while they were […]