Posted By: August 30, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus DUP handled Pope visit badlyIrish News Editorial. Belfast. Thursday, August 30, 2018Earlier this month the Irish government extended an invitation to the leaders of all the main political parties in Northern Ireland to attend a reception for Pope Francis in Dublin Castle during his visit last weekend.This was not a religious […]
Posted By: August 29, 2018
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 29, 2018Arlene Foster has denied vetoing DUP representation at Saturday’s civic reception for Pope Francis but also insisted it was her decision not to send anybody to the Dublin Castle event.When quizzed yesterday for the first time over her party’s decision not to attend a Papal event, the former first minister said the invite from the […]
Posted By: August 29, 2018
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 29, 2018The party’s overIt’s time to call it a dayThey’ve burst your pretty balloonAnd taken the moon awayIt’s time to wind up the masqueradeJust make your mind up the piper must be paidThe party’s overIt’s time to call it a day.The best version is Nat King Cole’s 1957 rendition […]
Posted By: August 29, 2018
Bob Bateman writes about the Penal Laws, which were described by 18th-century Anglo Irish MP Edmund Burke as “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Bob Bateman, AOH Division 18, Peekskill, […]
Posted By: August 28, 2018
The (British controlled) Northern Ireland Office (NIO) gave this confidential analysis of the DUP in the 1990s. It has now been publicly released under the 20 Year Rule. Sam McBride. NewsLetter.Belfast. Saturday, August 25, 2018 NIO civil servants described the DUP as having started as a “crypto-fascist splinter group” which had evolved into a slick political machine where many senior figures […]