Posted By: April 03, 2018
John Taylor, a cross-bench peer Lord Kilclooney, made the comments on Twitter Brendan Hughes. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, April 3, 2018 A UNIONIST peer has been criticised for claiming a pub bombed by loyalist paramilitaries during the Troubles was a “drinking hole for IRA sympathizers” who have run a “political campaign to place the blame on the UVF”. Former […]
Posted By: April 02, 2018
Kieran McEvoy. The Detail. Belfast.Friday, March 30, 2018 Unlike many other international peace agreements, the Good Friday Accord did not include an overarching mechanism to deal with the legacy of the conflict. Since 1998, legacy issues have therefore been addressed in a piecemeal fashion.For example, there have been several high profile public inquiries including the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday as […]
Posted By: April 02, 2018
Staff Reporter. Donegal Democrat. Sunday, April 1, 2018Plans have emerged today for a new Northern Ireland border checkpoint at Belleek on the Donegal/Fermanagh border. As Brexit moves continue, the plans are the first tangible signs that UK authorities believe a hard border is inevitable and that authorities in the UK are planning for such checkpoints.Drawings, dated April 1st, 2020, for a […]
Posted By: April 02, 2018
Peter Swindon @PeterSwindon Senior reporter, Sunday Herald. Scotland. April 1, 2018 Orange marchers take to the streets of Glasgow. THE “anti-Catholic” Orange Order is in terminal decline and can only survive if it abandons sectarianism, according to historian Tom Devine. He said members of the Protestant fraternity are aging and their marches in […]
Posted By: April 01, 2018
Niall O’Dowd @niallodowd Irish Central. New York. Monday, March 26, 2018 Sending the murderous mob was the fatal mistake that drove Irish opposition to Britain to new heights. Winston Churchill, British Secretary of State for War, sent the Black and Tans into Ireland on March 25, 1920, ninety-eight years ago today. It was a […]