Posted By: June 15, 2020
Letters to EditorIrish TimesDublinMay 6, 2020Dear Editor,Sadly, your Washington correspondent has got it exactly right:“ that much of the success of Donald Trump was based on racism.” ( Suzanne Lynch,” Donald Trump’s political success is based on racism.” June 6).Americans have been slow to actually come to terms with that. Even leading media people, who are critical […]
Posted By: June 12, 2020
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 By Irish Echo StaffAdding to the furious political reaction to the deportation from the United States of Malachy McAllister, Congressman Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has expressed his outrage over the Belfast man’s removal from American soil and his New Jersey home.And, critically, Engel indicated that he would work in the future to make […]
Posted By: June 10, 2020
Victims Commissioner Judith Thompson described the public stand-off as “cruel, callous and insulting” to Troubles victims. Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, June 10, 2020On Friday the EU negotiator Michel Barnier said: “We must stick to our commitments if we are to make progress.”He then listed a series of examples where the British had walked away from commitments […]
Posted By: June 06, 2020
Irish Echo Staff. June 4, 2020 Senator Charles Schumer of New York and Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey have jointly written to the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, in support of Malachy McAllister. McAllister is facing deportation from the U.S. as early as tomorrow, Friday, June 5. In […]
Posted By: June 05, 2020
Irish Echo. June 1, 2020 As he faces potential deportation from the United States at the end of this week, Malachy McAllister is receiving concentrated support from the Ancient Order of Hibernians. In a letter to Hibernians around the U.S., National President Judge James McKay has urged action in support of McAllister, who is […]