Posted By: October 23, 2020
Mary Lou McDonald said she was disappointed that taoiseach failed to address Irish unity. John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, October 23, 2020 THE TAOISEACH yesterday pledged €500 million of what he insists is new money to build and enhance cross-border projects over the next five years. The announcement of fresh ring-fenced funding came […]
Posted By: October 19, 2020
“Steeped in traditional Paisleyite politics, Mr. Poots’s father Charlie was a close associate of the former first minister [the late Rev. Ian Paisley] and a founding member of the DUP. He died earlier this year aged 90 at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown. Charlie Poots was also outspoken, stating at […]
Posted By: October 14, 2020
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, October 14, 2020 The chair of Westminster’s NI Affairs Committee – who he?– wrote an op-ed piece in the Irish Times on Monday. For the last decade (and some would say longer) the committee, set up 27 years ago at the behest of Unionists, has been a menace to […]
Posted By: October 10, 2020
“Reputed anti-Catholic and anti-Black bigots in Northern Ireland organize for Trump … The main organizer, Jolene Bunting, has distinguished herself by this statement:“I’m so sick of the poor Catholic bastards; they make me sick. I wish they would just go down to [southern] Ireland, and then they can fly their flags and change the [Irish language] street […]
Posted By: October 10, 2020
https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/10/10/irish-unity-dream-or-reality/ Gil Kapen. International Policy Digest. Saturday, October 10, 2020. The great Irish poet laureate William Butler Yeats once remarked that “There is another world, but it is in this one.” For too long, the notion of Irish unification—the long-sought ideal of Ireland as one country including all of its 32 counties—seemed destined […]