Posted By: April 05, 2018
Brendan Hughes. Irish News.Thursday, April 5, 2018COMEDIAN Patrick Kielty has said he believes Brexit will make people more likely to vote for a united Ireland.The television presenter said that before the EU referendum he did not think there would be a united Ireland in his lifetime, but now “I think there is a chance.”Mr. Kielty said “any type of border […]
Posted By: April 05, 2018
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood Suzanne Breen. Belfast Telegraph. Wednesday, April 4, 2018 SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has refused to rule out “a realignment in Irish politics” that would see his party standing aside and Fianna Fail organizing in Northern Ireland. Senior SDLP sources told the Belfast Telegraph that around 80% of the party […]
Posted By: April 05, 2018
Paisley and Trimble were different leaders, but both projected conspicuously male models of authorityAlexander Coupe. Irish Times. Dublin. Wednesday, April 4, 2018Shortly after Arlene Foster became the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in 2016, her fellow DUP MLA Edwin Poots caused a media stir by insisting that his leader’s most important job has been and will remain that of a wife, a […]
Posted By: April 04, 2018
” Once again, in this article Belfast, columnist Brian Feeney provides essential reading for the U.S. Congress regarding the DUP’s failure to live up to the Good Friday Agreement —just as many Whites resisted full freedom for Blacks in the Civil Rights struggle. … However, ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’ […]
Posted By: April 03, 2018
John Taylor, a cross-bench peer Lord Kilclooney, made the comments on Twitter Brendan Hughes. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, April 3, 2018 A UNIONIST peer has been criticised for claiming a pub bombed by loyalist paramilitaries during the Troubles was a “drinking hole for IRA sympathizers” who have run a “political campaign to place the blame on the UVF”. Former […]