Posted By: March 06, 2020
John Manley. Irish News.Belfast. Friday, March 6, 2020ALMOST a fifth of DUP voters migrated to Alliance in December’s Westminster election when Naomi Long’s party more than doubled its share of the vote, new research reveals.Alliance vote share surged from 7.9 percent in 2017 to 16.8 percent, with the party securing the North Down seat vacated by Lady Sylvia Hermon in the process.Research from […]
Posted By: March 05, 2020
Twenty years of governing without saying Northern Ireland shows the party is not about to change Newton Emerson. Irish Times. Dublin. Thursday, March 5, 2020 Leo Varadkar is on a hiding to nothing complaining that Sinn Féin will not call the Irish State by its proper name. Writing in a Sunday […]
Posted By: March 03, 2020
RECRUITMENT: The PSNI revealed last week that it had received almost 7,000 applications in a drive to recruit 600 officers. About one third are from the Catholic community Allison Morris. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, March 3, 2020 NAOMI Long has said she is “not minded” to reintroduce the policy of 50:50 recruitment to the PSNI.Last week the force revealed […]
Posted By: March 02, 2020
Chris Donnelly. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, March 2, 2020 The latest poll on the constitutional future of this island has better news for supporters of unity than the poll preceding it by only a matter of days on the same theme.The very fact that such polls are being commissioned with increasing regularity tells a tale in itself. The unity discussion […]
Posted By: March 02, 2020
On This Day [in Irish history] The Irish News, March 3, 1920 Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, March 3, 2020 The interview with Mr. Eamon de Valera [President of Dáil Eireann, now touring North America] by the American correspondent of the Westminster Gazette has sparked controversy in the US. In the course of […]