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Majority believe [UK] union will cease to exist within decade poll finds

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 […]

US politicians urged to scrutinize census process

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 […]

Unionist leaders in Northern Ireland must banish the ghosts of grievance and rage

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 […]

Unionists have opposed every progressive move in The North to no avail

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 […]

Attempt to sectarianize Unionist disorder a serious and malevolent development

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 […]

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