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FR. MC MANUS SHOCKED AND PUZZLED BY OMISSION OF HIS LATE BROTHER PATRICK FROM NEW BOOK, Fermanagh: From Plantation to Peace Process by Margaret Urwin.

Posted By: May 07, 2021

    FR. MC MANUS SHOCKED AND PUZZLED BY OMISSION OF HIS LATE BROTHER PATRICK FROM NEW BOOK, Fermanagh: From Plantation to Peace Process by Margaret Urwin. Eastwood Books. Dublin. 2020.   “I find it incomprehensible that the only Fermanagh IRA leader (and O.C., Commanding Officer for South Fermanagh and member of the Army Council […]

Fury over British government’s Troubles “amnesty” plan

Posted By: May 06, 2021

  David Young, PA. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, May 6, 2021   Politicians on both sides of the border have condemned a reported move to prevent future prosecutions over Troubles crimes.   The British government is set to introduce a statute of limitations to stop people from being charged over incidents that occurred before the […]

Whichever candidate wins will hasten the demise of the DUP

Posted By: May 05, 2021

Unlike Jeffrey Donaldson, Edwin Poots has always been consistent. He has always been in the DUP.   Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, May 5, 2021.   Years ago, it must have been the 1994 European election, canvassers in Belfast’s republican New Lodge Road district were taken aback by a few people saying they were […]

Day northern nationalists hoped would never come

Posted By: May 03, 2021

Dr. Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, May 3, 2021 ( Dr. Éamon Phoenix is a political historian and broadcaster and an Irish News columnist. He is a member of the taoiseach’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations and the author of Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940.)   […]

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