Posted By: October 21, 2017
“Belfast columnist Patrick Murphy provides a key insight for Members of Congress into the state of Unionism in Northern Ireland. It is essential to understand his basic point: “History shows that post-partition Unionism [after the 1920 British Government of Ireland Act, that divided Ireland] is largely founded on a siege mentality, so a Unionist leader can easily […]
Posted By: October 19, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “This quote from today’s Irish News of Belfast makes chilling reading: ‘And all while [ Haggarty was] working as an RUC Special Branch informer alongside Mark Haddock, another agent who led the ragtag gang of murderers, almost all of whom were in the pay of the State.’ What an appalling […]
Posted By: October 19, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “This development in the Haggarty case is being seen as another defeat for human rights and justice—and another massive cover-up of police/security collusion. However, Raymond McCord, a Belfast Protestant, bravely continues the good fight. Reconciliation is at its truest and best when Protestants and Catholics (Unionists/Loylists-Nationalists/Republicans) […]
Posted By: October 19, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus Fr. Sean McManus. Letters to the Editor. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, October 19, 2017 When I read Jack Duffin’s letter ‘”ectarianism can never be treated if not properly diagnosed’ (October 9), I automatically thought of the statement by African-American writer and social critic James Baldwin (1924-1987): ‘Not everything that is faced can […]
Posted By: October 18, 2017
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, October 18, 2017, column FM News It turns out the DUP’s Robin Newton was a quantum adviser to what is euphemistically described as ‘the UDA-linked Charter NI’.He’s living (or dead?) proof of Erwin Schrödinger’s Cat conjecture in which the cat could be either alive or dead or both, but you wouldn’t […]