Posted By: October 15, 2017
“The Heavy Gang” of Liam Cosgrave and Garret Fitz Gerald was, in effect, the Southern support-group for the RUC and British torturers in The North. Fitz Gerald was Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time and loved to pompously lecture Irish-Americans—and to attack the Irish National Caucus— while all the time covering up police brutality […]
Posted By: October 15, 2017
The Reformation and Ireland Letters to Editor. Irish Times. Saturday, Oct 14, 2017ERIC CONWAY, Navan, Co Meath. Sir, – Further to “Why did the Reformation fail to take hold in an Ireland under English rule?” (Rite & Reason, October 10th), up until about 30 years ago the accepted narrative of English history was that the Reformation […]
Posted By: October 14, 2017
Analysis: Positive mood suggests Sinn Féin and DUP will strike Assembly deal Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, October 14, 2017Rather like the Republic’s game against Wales on Monday, the DUP-Sinn Féin negotiations to restore the Northern Executive and Assembly have reached a do-or-die moment.Apart from the Irish language all other issues are more or less “wrapped up with a […]
Posted By: October 14, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald prolonged the agony in The North because they were scared to stand up to violent and oppressive British Governments.There would never have been an Irish peace process if had been left to them.”—Fr. Sean McManus The obits for […]
Posted By: October 13, 2017
James Wilson. Irish Central.Friday, October 13, 2017“Percentage of Catholics in the Republic has dipped below 80%”iStockThe number of atheists in Ireland has shot up by nearly three quarters whilst the number of Catholics has dived, according to the latest census figures.In 2011 a total of 277,237 ticked the ‘no religion’ box on the census form, but five years later 481,388 […]