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Stormont House Agreement: Victim’s relatives concerns raised in U.S. Congress and the Dail

Posted By: January 13, 2018

Eamon Sweeney. Derry Journal. Thursday,  October  1, 2015 The concerns of victim’s relatives have now been raised in Dublin and Washington The Irish National caucus is a powerful lobby group on Capitol Hill Relatives have been scathing of the SHA The concerns of relatives of Troubles victim’s over what mechanisms are contained within the Stormont […]

Surprised by negative publicity

Posted By: January 13, 2018

Letters to Editor. Irish News. Belfast. Published Friday, January 12, 2018Far be it from me to be too indulgent of Tory rulers in Northern Ireland. However, even this Fermanagh man is surprised by the negative publicity out-going secretary of state James Brokenshire has received throughout his tenure in the north.Because of that negative publicity, when Mr. Brokenshire spoke in July at […]

British government “has duty to provide independent inquiries commission to investigate past”

Posted By: January 12, 2018

Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 12, 2018Former Police Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O’Loan has said the British government has a duty to provide an independent historical inquiries commission to investigate the past.The former ombudsman also said that she and others have shown that there was collusion in the past.Mrs. O’Loan, who now sits in the House of Lords, was […]

Gerry Adams pays tribute to mother of Bobby Sands

Posted By: January 12, 2018

On the first day of Hunger Strike by Bobby Sands in Maze Prison people marched to the Busy Bee on the Falls Road at Andersonstown where they heard his mother Rosaleen Sands speak. Photo: Pacemaker Press. Philip Bradfield. Newsletter. Belfast.  Friday, 12 January 2018   Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has paid tribute to Rosaleen […]

Bobby Sands’s mother Rosaleen has died

Posted By: January 12, 2018

 Rosaleen Sands speaking to a crowd which had marched along the Falls Road on the first day of the hunger strikes    Maeve Connolly. Irish News. Belfast. Friday,   January 12, 2018   The mother of IRA hunger striker and MP Bobby Sands has died. Rosaleen Sands has been described by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams as “a […]

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