Posted By: June 09, 2018
Bridget Bond was a driving force in the campaign for better housing conditions in her native Derry in the early 1960s.Seamus McKinney. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, June 9, 2028The life and work of one of the great heroes of the early civil rights movement will take center stage in a talk by fellow campaigner Eamonn McCann.Bridget Bond was a driving […]
Posted By: June 09, 2018
Patrick Murphy.Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, June 9, 2018 Nationalist Ireland’s political doctors generally agree that the north is suffering from an illness known as Theresa May syndrome.Apparently, it causes legislative paralysis in areas such as abortion and same-sex marriage and political thrombosis in the form of Brexit and economic austerity.Despite its damage to the North’s body politic, nationalists’ only attempted treatment to date […]
Posted By: June 09, 2018
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, June 9, 2018 LEO Varadkar was lauded in east and west Belfast yesterday during a symbolically-significant trip which saw him acknowledge both unionist and nationalist culture.The Taoiseach received a warm welcome during a historic visit to the Museum of Orange Heritage at Schomberg House, with locals applauding him on arrival and departure.The first Irish premier to visit the […]
Posted By: June 08, 2018
Jack Duffin. Letters to Editor. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, June 7, 2018Alban Maginness (May 17), will tell his grandchildren that the SDLP were unique in Irish politics, changed the face of politics throughout Ireland, and since its formation in 1970 they steered the history of this island as the most successful party since partition.It is difficult to speculate as to […]
Posted By: June 06, 2018
Southern Star editorial. Cork. Monday, 4th June 2018CONGRATS to Willie McCrea, Free Presbyterian Minister, gospel singer, former hard-line DUP politico and Member of Parliament. He’s been elevated as a person of rank to membership of the House of Lords.But, here’s the interesting bit. Previously classified British government papers released four years ago revealed that McCrea urged the British government in 1986 to launch […]