Posted By: February 16, 2019
The SDLP pact with Fianna Fáil could come at an electoral cost in May’s council elections. Alex Kane. Irish News.Belfast.Friday, February 15, 2019. The problem for the SDLP is that Colum Eastwood’s leadership hasn’t actually delivered anything so far. Mark Durkan, Margaret Ritchie, and Alasdair McDonnell have lost their Westminster seats. The MLA tally has gone down from 14 to 11. In McDonnell’s last three elections […]
Posted By: February 15, 2019
In his new book Burnt Out: How The Troubles Began, historian Michael McCann gathers over 30 eyewitness accounts of the sectarian violence which erupted in Belfast and Derry’s Bogside during the summer of 1969. The Belfast man spoke to David Roy about highlighting state and Unionist culpability in the “birth” of the Troubles David Roy. Irish News.Thursday, February14, 2019 Michael McCann’s new book Burnt […]
Posted By: February 15, 2019
Andrew Woodcock and Shaun Connolly, Press Association. Irish News. Friday, February 15, 2019 Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has stood by his description of Sir Winston Churchill as a “villain.” The Labor heavyweight made the comment in response to a sequence of quick-fire questions in an interview with Politico streamed live on the […]
Posted By: February 15, 2019
RISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Today’s Briefing contains further disturbing exposure of what some might see as more police coverup and collusion in Northern Ireland/The North:’Mr. Maguire [police Ombudsman], who is due to retire in July, has said the results of a probe over the murder of 17-year-old Damien Walsh by the UFF […]
Posted By: February 14, 2019
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Members of Congress will find this article from today’s Irish News of Belfast (February 15, 2019) useful in understanding the details that led to the collapse of the Stormont Assembly. The article clearly documents the failures of the DUP: ‘The truth is the DUP […]
