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PSNI denied appeal against order to disclose files linked to informer

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 […]

Paisley “favored religious fundamentalists over deputy”

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 […]

Death of former IRA man and author Sean O’Callaghan

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, […]

The road of Irish Catholicism has been relentlessly changing

Posted By: August 24, 2017

Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Diarmuid Martin Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, August 24, 2016DURING the 1960s, the authoritarian monopoly of the Irish Church in the social sphere began to give way to its opposite: a widespread desire to remove the Church from such a position of influence.Many people – particularly bishops and even scholars – had not been strident in […]

Ulster Scots body seeking £140m for cultural activities

Posted By: August 24, 2017

Proposal paper says community ‘is experiencing discrimination’ as more money spent on IrishTHE body responsible for promoting Ulster Scots is seeking £140 million over the next decade to fund a range ofcultural activities.The spending proposal was contained in a position paper from Ulster Scots Agency chief executive Ian Crozier which was presented to the parties involved in the Stormont talks.The document is […]

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