Posted By: April 20, 2021
Conor Riordan. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, April 20, 000 A majority in new poll expect the union to end in a decade. The Ipsos Mori survey also found that more than half of the public in Britain and Northern Ireland believe a second Scottish independence referendum should take place if the SNP gains […]
Posted By: April 19, 2021
Bimpe Archer. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, April 19, 2021 HISTORIAN Tim Pat Coogan has called for Irish American politicians to scrutinize Northern Ireland’s census process – claiming “bogus statistics” have seen Catholic numbers under-reported for decades. “I would earnestly advocate that the Friends of Ireland grouping of Congressmen, on Capitol Hill Washington, scrutinize the handling […]
Posted By: April 15, 2021
Fearing democracy, the DUP and loyalist groups are retreating into a paranoid huddle Susan McKay. The Guardian. London. Thursday, April 15, 2021 (Susan McKay is an Irish writer and journalist). A few of the boys and men asked about their alleged involvement in last week’s street violence in Northern Ireland spoke as if […]
Posted By: April 14, 2021
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, April 14, 2021. There’s one aspect of the chronically defective unionist leadership through the decades that you have to admit: consistency. They oppose everything as a fundamentally fatal threat to the fetid little political slum they set up here. They opposed civil rights, organized protests, beat […]
Posted By: April 13, 2021
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, April 9, 2021. Wednesday night’s disturbances were the most serious in years for a number of reasons. For the previous week, sporadic violence was confined to predictable unionist districts, but on Wednesday there was an attempt to invade nationalist [Catholic] west Belfast through the most dangerous interface […]