Posted By: September 23, 2018
Analysis: PM’s Downing Street fighting talk likely to play well at Tory party conferenceDenis Staunton. London Editor. Irish Times. Friday, September 21, 2018, British prime minister Theresa May has said that the EU must present alternative Brexit proposals after the UK’s Chequers proposal was rejected during a summit in Salzburg. Theresa May’s defiant words in Downing Street may have been bombastic enough to have […]
Posted By: September 21, 2018
Irish Echo New York City. September 21, 2018 Fr. Ultan McGoohan and Fr. Sean McManus on their “pilgrimage” to the ancestral home of Rosanna Cox-Fitzgerald in Toneymore West, County Fermanagh.By Fr. Sean McManus.Friday, September 21, 2018I’m lately even more proud of my native Fermanagh since it has been established that the great -grandmother of President Kennedy, Rosanna Cox-Fitzgerald (c.1835-1979) was […]
Posted By: September 21, 2018
The idea made no sense but fed into the British tabloid narrative about Brussels Bobby McDonagh. Irish Times Dublin. Friday, September 21, 2018 (Bobby McDonagh is a former Irish ambassador to the UK, Italy, and the EU).Speaking at an EU leaders summit in Salzburg, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the Irish Government is preparing for the possibility […]
Posted By: September 21, 2018
Stephen Walker, BBC News NI, Political Correspondent. 20 September 2018Media captionJeremy Corbyn has rejected the latest Brexit backstop proposals from the chief negotiator put forward for NI.The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has rejected the latest Brexit backstop proposals from the chief negotiator put forward for Northern Ireland.Michel Barnier has proposed that goods could be checked in Britain before arriving in Northern Ireland.The […]
Posted By: September 21, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to U.S. Congress by Irish National Caucus There is another possible scenario that hardline unionists might go for instead of a united Ireland: a re-partitioned Ireland.Michael Bearra @IrishCentral. September 20, 2018As the last 40 years have shown, with a greatly increasing Catholic population, the Unionist majority in Northern Ireland is fading.Figures from 2016 […]
