Posted By: March 01, 2019
RISH 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 […]
Posted By: March 01, 2019
Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, March 1, 2019RELATIVES of Troubles victim stuck in an inquest logjam have welcomed the release of £55m to fund more than 50 legacy inquests.The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the cash will be made available to hold inquests into the deaths of 93 people killed over four decades.Many of the cases center on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]