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President Trumka, AFL-CO, receives Labor Leadership Award

Posted By: June 20, 2018

World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership Fr. Sean McManus. President Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO, and Barbara Flaherty  CAPITOL HILL. Tuesday, June 19, 2018——The leader of the 12.5 million Labor coalition was awarded a top peace prize today in Washington, DC.The Award, World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership, was presented on Tuesday to the president of the massive AFL-CIO, Richard […]

Mary-Lou’s savvy is leaving DUP behind

Posted By: June 19, 2018

Tom Kelly. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, June 18, 2018“So when you get a Queen’s pardon, it’s only natural that you would take the first opportunity to thank her son,” said one of the wags on social media about Gerry Kelly’s natter [conversation] with Prince Charles during the latter’s visit to Belfast.Gerry and the former culture minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, did not […]

“It was the beginning of the civil rights campaign proper – I helped change history”

Posted By: June 18, 2018

Austin Currie and Geraldine Gildernew reflect on what was achieved by the squat at Number 11 Kinnard ParkSeamus McKinney. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, June 17, 2018Austin Currie spoke at a housing conference – Housing Then and Now – organized to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Caledon protest at the Junction in Dungannon. Picture by Bill Smyth.Mary Teresa Goodfellow’s mother, Anne Gildernew […]

press complaint by Loughinisland suspect rejected

Posted By: June 16, 2018

Ronald Hawthorn was filmed by a private detective as part of the documentary No Stone Unturned and named as a suspect in the massacre John Monaghan. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, June 16, 2018 THE press regulator has rejected a complaint by a man named as a suspect in the Loughinisland massacre.Ronald Hawthorn claimed that a series of articles in The […]

50th anniversary of the protest that launched civil rights campaign

Posted By: June 14, 2018

Seamus McKinney. Irish News. Belast. Friday, June 15, 2018 The fiftieth anniversary of the “Caledon protest” which launched the civil rights campaign in Northern Ireland will be commemorated by former Stormont MP Austin Currie at a Dungannon conference today.On June 20, 1968, Mr. Currie, Patsy Gildernew (an uncle of Sinn Féin MP, Michele Gildernew) and County Tyrone farmer, the late Joe Campbell […]

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