Sean Mac Bride & Fr. Sean Mc Manus in New York in the spring of 1976, eight years before the announcement of the Mac Bride Principles.
Posted By: July 02, 2019
ON THIS DAY [in Irish history]The Irish News, July 2, 1919Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, July 2, 2019President de Valera, addressing the Massachusetts Legislature yesterday, declared that if a plebiscite could be taken the people of Ireland would vote in favor of a Republic by four to one. ‘It is said that the people of Ireland are divided,’ he continued. ‘This is […]
Posted By: July 02, 2019
David Young. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, July 2, 2019Reintroducing the 50-50 policy to boost Catholic recruitment in the PSNI would be premature, Simon Byrne has said.The new chief constable said he was keen to examine other approaches to increase the numbers joining from the nationalist community before consideration was given to the positive-discrimination tool.Mr Byrne said he wanted to explore […]
Posted By: July 01, 2019
Catholic children are three times more likely to be locked up at Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre in Bangor, Co Down. Allison Morris. Irish News.Belfast. Monday, July 1, 2019The children’s commissioner has said authorities must work out why young people from Catholic backgrounds are three times more likely to be detained in custody.Young offenders aged from 10 to 17 are […]
Posted By: July 01, 2019
Deaglán de Bréadún. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, July 1, 2019IT was in the merry month of May in the year 2000, before he was elected MP, that Boris Johnson interviewed the late Martin McGuinness in The Spectator.My principal memory of the piece was his attempt to convey the Derry man’s pronunciation of the word “British”. Johnson re-wrote it in semi-phonetic […]
Posted By: June 30, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Attached is a good explanation of an issue is that not too well understood.”—Fr. Sean McManus A referendum on extending the vote in presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the Republic appears likely to be held this year. Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, June 26, 2019 In […]
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