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McCord Slams Callous DUP Disrespect of Finucane Family

Posted By: February 28, 2019

  IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Intrepid and extraordinarily brave Protestant campaigner for all victims in Northern Ireland/The North, Raymond McCord, Sr. has condemned the appalling mistreatment of the Finucane family by DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson. The Belfast Telegraph reports that Donaldson — speaking a day after the Supreme Court ruled […]

Varadkar calls again for public inquiry into Finucane murder

Posted By: February 28, 2019

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, February 28, 2019TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has called on the British government to do the “honorable” thing and hold a public inquiry into the loyalist murder of solicitor Pat Finucane. He was speaking after the Supreme Court in London ruled a high-profile review into his death […]

Court ruling hailed by Finucane family

Posted By: February 27, 2019

Ciara Quinn. Irish Echo. February 27, 2019   Belfast — The son of murdered human rights solicitor Pat Finucane says the family “have won” and are “vindicated” following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that none of the inquiries into the West Belfast lawyer’s murder have been capable of establishing the full facts surrounding his death. […]

Harping on gladly

Posted By: February 27, 2019

          Fr. Sean McManus. Washington, D.C. The Forum Letters from our readers February 27-March 5, 2019 Harping on gladly   Editor: Ever since I came to the United States on October 2, 1972, I have raised the issue of injustice and oppression in Northern Ireland, the artificial area England (I say […]

Legacy inquest cash plan has been approved – but “blocked.” 

Posted By: February 26, 2019

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “This is intolerable cruelty and no way to deal with the most sensitive issues of all—legacy issues that deeply haunt victims. The Committee for the Administration of Justice states it correctly in today’s Irish News of Belfast:’ Daniel Holder, Deputy Director of the Committee on […]

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