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Being sidelined suits the DUP’s unspoken wish for soft Brexit

Posted By: April 06, 2019

  The Tories have sidelined the DUP and its MPs in the latest stage of the Brexit enigma Newton Emerson. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, April 6, 2019 THE sudden sidelining of the DUP at Westminster, with Prime Minister Theresa May reaching out to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has forced differences of opinion within the Unionist party out into the open.DUP […]

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Democracy is hard to find

Posted By: April 06, 2019

  Patrick Murphy.Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, April 6, 2019 I blame the Greeks. I mean, there we were in Ireland 2,500 years ago, getting the hang of farming, beginning to speak what became modern Irish and generally minding our own business. And what were the ancient Greeks doing? Inventing democracy, that’s what. Ah but, you […]

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Voters must have final say

Posted By: April 06, 2019

RISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Irish News Editorial.Belfast.Saturday, April 6, 2019The intensive Brexit talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, which were stumbling last night, are likely to provide a defining or perhaps a concluding moment for either or both of their careers.Mrs.May has plainly concluded that her ill-advised alliance with the DUP […]

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Amal Clooney asked to investigate arrest of journalists in Northern Ireland

Posted By: April 06, 2019

  Ciaran Tierney. Irish Central.New York. Friday, April  5, 2019   Amal Clooney was appointed Special Envoy on Media Freedom as part of a British Government campaign to highlight assaults and restrictions on journalists across the globe. International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has been called upon to meet two arrested journalists in Northern Ireland […]

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Southern support for Provos prolonged Troubles

Posted By: April 06, 2019

  John Manley.Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, April 6, 2019 A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland 1969-1980 by Gearoid O Faolean John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, April 6, 2019   The widespread level of sympathy and support for the Provisional IRA in the Republic was instrumental to the longevity of […]

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