Posted By: January 26, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “Solicitor for the Loughinisland families Niall Murphy said: ‘ This was the most unprecedented resolution to a judicial review application that I have ever experienced in my years in practice.What we have now is an opportunity for the police ombudsman and the families to re-engage in a brand […]
Posted By: January 25, 2018
The civil rights campaign is being remembered 50 years on Professor Paul Arthur. Irish News. Belfast.Thursday, January 25, 2018IT was Enoch Powell who noted that everything ‘has a pre-play’.The civil rights marches of 1968 did not come suddenly out of the blue. There were antecedents.The O’Neill premiership with its desire for modernization removed the complacency of a stagnant […]
Posted By: January 25, 2018
IrishCentral Staff. New York. January 25, 2018 Long before the Irish tricolor became the official flag of Ireland, before it was waved over Dublin’s GPO during the 1916 Rising, the tricolor was flown in Waterford City for the first time recorded in history by one of Ireland’s most important figures: Thomas Francis Meagher. Meagher would […]
Posted By: January 24, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “The real kernel for talks/negotiations is to … persuade the DUP to treat Sinn Féin MLAs with decency and respect as representatives of 70 percent of Nationalist voters in The North.” Brian Feeney.Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, January 23, 2018 As talks (why are they not negotiations?) begin today it’s important to challenge the […]
Posted By: January 23, 2018
Allison Morris. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, January 23, 2018The “ceasefire” statement by Óglaigh na hÉireann carried in today’s Irish News indicates a political maturity and realization that the landscape for Republicans has changed, potentially forever.This isn’t a snap decision. There have been hints previously that the group was in a transitional period, with the community sector and senior trade union figures playing […]
