Posted By: April 11, 2019
On This Day [in Irish History] Irish News, April 11, 1969 Eamon Phoenix.Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, April 11, 2019 A beginning could be made in dismantling the partition of Ireland by the setting up of a Federal Council for the whole country, sitting possibly in Armagh. So said Mr. Neil Blaney, [Irish] Minister for Agriculture, in […]
Posted By: April 10, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Columnist Brian Feeney is not able to wish the Good Friday Agreement a Happy 21st Birthday. Indeed, he thinks the Agreement is sadly on life support. And after the London government, he points the finger at not only the Dublin government but also that […]
Posted By: April 10, 2019
CAPITOL HILL. Tuesday, April 9, 2019—— A dedicated Irish Activist from the state of Florida has been presented with the Irish American Peace Prize. Appropriately enough, the Prize was presented in front of the Rayburn House Office Building, where recipient Shawn Sidway had been lobbying. Among the offices, he visited was that of Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL), the […]
Posted By: April 10, 2019
Staff Reporter. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, April 10, 2019 A British army officer suggested planting bullets in the pockets of some of those wounded during the Ballymurphy shootings, an inquest heard yesterday.The claim was made by former army medic Nigel Mumford who was attached to the Second Battalion of the Parachute Regiment during theshootings in the west Belfast estate in August […]
Posted By: April 09, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Congress “ Belfast Protestant victims’ campaigner, Raymond Mc Cord, Sr., takes his over 20-year campaign for justice for his son to a new level. He has filed a civil action in Belfast High Court against those he claims were involved in the 1997 murder of his […]