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“Brexit”: A Linguistic Guide

Posted By: April 10, 2018

Stephen Castle. New York Time. December 7, 2017 LONDON — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, known as Brexit, has brought a multitude of challenges, and now it seems to be testing the limits of the English language. Clever wording, what diplomats describe as constructive ambiguity, can bridge gaps between groups with competing interests. But […]

New figures reveal scale of unsolved killings from the Troubles

Posted By: April 10, 2018

 Rory Winters. The Detail. Belfast. Monday, April 9, 2018TWENTY years on from the signing of the Good Friday Agreement,  over one-third of killings carried out in Northern Ireland during The Troubles are still being investigated by police, The Detail can reveal.There were over 3,200 homicides in Northern Ireland from January 1969 to the signing of the agreement on April […]

Loyalist paramilitaries make a statement rejecting criminality

Posted By: April 09, 2018

(left to right) Reverend Harold Good, Jim Wilson, Archbishop Alan Harper, Jackie McDonald, Reverend Norman Hamilton and Dr. William Mitchell at Linenhall Library, Belfast on Monday, where a Loyalist Declaration of Transformation was announced. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire   Loyalist paramilitaries make a statement rejecting criminality Victims campaigner Raymond McCord rejects statement as ‘nonsense’ The father […]

Agreement must be defended

Posted By: April 09, 2018

Michelle O’Neill said the Good Friday Agreement ‘needs to be protected not imperiled’. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, April 9, 2018 TOMORROW we mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Despite our ongoing political challenges, Ireland has been transformed over the past two decades as a result of the Irish peace process. We have emerged from decades of political […]

SF should consider unilateral return

Posted By: April 09, 2018

SF should consider a unilateral returnDeaglan de Breadun. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, April 9, 2018 The anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement underlines the point that there aren’t many new issues in the politics of this island. The current impasse is principally defined by different stances on the Irish language, but this was something that also surfaced in those frenetic negotiations 20 years […]

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