Posted By: April 10, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus Heroic victims’ campaigner Belfast Protestant Raymond McCord, Sr. is an unstoppable force of nature. This attached article from the Irish News of Belfast reports his most recent victory in his almost 21-year struggle for justice for his murdered son, Raymond, Jr.It was Raymond’s dogged persistence that led […]
Posted By: April 10, 2018
Stephen Castle. New York Time. December 7, 2017 LONDON — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, known as Brexit, has brought a multitude of challenges, and now it seems to be testing the limits of the English language. Clever wording, what diplomats describe as constructive ambiguity, can bridge gaps between groups with competing interests. But […]
Posted By: April 10, 2018
Rory Winters. The Detail. Belfast. Monday, April 9, 2018TWENTY years on from the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, over one-third of killings carried out in Northern Ireland during The Troubles are still being investigated by police, The Detail can reveal.There were over 3,200 homicides in Northern Ireland from January 1969 to the signing of the agreement on April […]
Posted By: April 09, 2018
(left to right) Reverend Harold Good, Jim Wilson, Archbishop Alan Harper, Jackie McDonald, Reverend Norman Hamilton and Dr. William Mitchell at Linenhall Library, Belfast on Monday, where a Loyalist Declaration of Transformation was announced. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Loyalist paramilitaries make a statement rejecting criminality Victims campaigner Raymond McCord rejects statement as ‘nonsense’ The father […]
Posted By: April 09, 2018
Michelle O’Neill said the Good Friday Agreement ‘needs to be protected not imperiled’. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, April 9, 2018 TOMORROW we mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Despite our ongoing political challenges, Ireland has been transformed over the past two decades as a result of the Irish peace process. We have emerged from decades of political […]