Posted By: December 06, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Just as the Irish National Caucus is urging—with huge support from Irish-Americans— the building up of The Beloved Community in a new, shared Ireland, it is particularly sad to read excerpts of the article below from today’s Irish News of Belfast… Catholics being blocked from […]
Posted By: December 05, 2019
Uncertainty around Irish reunification only promotes instability Colin Harvey. Belfast BT6.Letters to Editor. Irish News. Thursday, December 5, 2019 How might we address the current speculation about referendums on Irish reunification? One approach is to bring clarity and certainty to the discussion by filling in some of the existing gaps. This will only happen once […]
Posted By: December 02, 2019
On This Day [in Irish history]The Irish News, December 3, 1969‘Copters Blot Out Paisley!Eamon Phoenix. Irish News, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 A telegram protesting about low-flying helicopters interrupting a Paisley service in Armagh yesterday has been sent to the Minister of Defense at Westminster by the chairman of the Mid-Armagh Division of the Ulster Protestant Volunteers. At one stage the […]
Posted By: November 29, 2019
Northern Ireland health system is ‘far from the gold standard’, meeting toldRonan McGreevy. Irish Times. Dublin.Friday, November 29, 2019 In the North, 94,000 people are waiting for more than a year for a consultant compared to just 3,364 in England though England has 30 times the population of Northern Ireland. Photograph: iStockA united Ireland is “unlikely to ruin the State” and could […]
Posted By: November 28, 2019
“Incredibly Arlene Foster is still going on about being able to ‘do business’ with a Labor government as long as Corbyn is not leader”Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Here is the stark truth. Unionists have no idea what to do. The DUP still reeling, hasn’t come to terms with the total collapse of their tactic of the […]