Posted By: July 18, 2017
Séamas Heaney speaks on decades of campaigning for an end to violence in the NorthFreya McClements. Irish Times. Dublin. Tuesday, July 18, 2017Seamas Heaney, a former member of the IRA who left the organization and became a community worker in Creggan in Derry. “People can say what they like about Martin McGuinness, but by God, he reached out.”It’s […]
Posted By: July 17, 2017
Deaglan De Breadun. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, July 17, 2017The dispute between Sinn Fein and the DUP over an Irish language act seems to have stymied the return of devolution, yet the language issue could still help to bring closer the restoration of cross-community government. Picture by Justin Kernoghan.BEFORE the communist empire based in Moscow collapsed in ruins, there was a category of journalists […]
Posted By: July 17, 2017
Grand Orange Lodge rage over media coverage but refuse to apologize for Hitler costume photos The group took to Facebook claiming that the images on the front of a Scottish newspaper were part of a “baseless agenda to attack.”Daily Record. Scotland. Sunday, July 16, 2017 The Grand Orange Lodge have slammed a Scottish newspaper for coverage of a Nazi and offensive costumes […]
Posted By: July 17, 2017
In many places, the Twelfth of July demonstrations are accompanied by a carnival atmosphere. To most Catholics, it is an alien and often surreal spectacleTom Kelly. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, July 17, 2017WELL, it’s not often we have good news in July but now that the Twelfth is over we should at least acknowledge that it was both peaceable […]
Posted By: July 16, 2017
Ryan. Irish Independent. Dublin. Sunday, July 16, 2017Senior German politicians told an Oireachtas delegation who traveled to the Bundestag that British politicians are a “disgrace” and their response to Brexit is “farcical.l”Two Irish senators and a TD were briefed by the German parliament’s finance committee on Britain’s decision to leave the EU.Fine Gael Senator Ray Butler, who attended the […]