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The Irish Times view on a no-deal Brexit: bracing for impact

Posted By: January 30, 2019

Just demanding that the current backstop be replaced by an “alternative” as the House of Commons did on Tuesday is deeply worrying Irish Times Editorial.Dublin. Wednesday, January 30, 2019 The dangers from a no-deal Brexit are starting to come more clearly into view. The problems and questions it would create in relation to the Irish Border were widely discussed in the last […]

Irish government completely out of touch with concerns of northern nationalists

Posted By: January 30, 2019

Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast.Wednesday, January 30, 2019Saturday’s Waterfront Hall conference on “Beyond Brexit’” was not only the biggest political event in the north this century; it was the biggest political event for more than a generation.Around 1,600 people from all nationalist parties on the island, many from no party and some unionists, gave up their Saturday at three weeks notice or […]

 Foster’s delight at the saving of Bombardier jobs has turned to indifference

Posted By: January 30, 2019

A thousand Airbus jobs in east Belfast will be unviable if there is a hard Brexit                 Fintan O’Toole.Irish Times.Dublin. Tuesday, January 29, 2019Forget the Border and the backstop for a moment. Think Bombardier – that huge plant you pass on the way to Belfast City Airport, just east of Harland and Wolff. If […]

Top Attorney Niall Murphy is the Force Behind the  Civic Nationalism in The North

Posted By: January 29, 2019

Top Attorney Niall Murphy is the Force Behind the  Civic Nationalism in The North Fr. Sean McManus and Attorney Niall Murphy, Capitol Hill, 2018 CAPITOL HILL.Tuesday,  January 29, 2019— Back on January 17, one of the top attorneys in the famed Kevin Winters Law firm of Belfast predicted that the conference he was organizing would […]

New party named Aontú

Posted By: January 29, 2019

  Peadar Tóibín’s new party will be called Aontú— the Irish for unity. Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, January 29, 2019A new Republican party being formed by former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín will be called Aontú – the Irish for unity.Mr. Tóibín left Sinn Féin last year claiming he had been ostracised because […]

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