Blog

Forward-looking Unionists must speak up

Posted By: January 13, 2022

Baroness Hoey claimed that “many professional vocations have become dominated by those of a nationalist persuasion “Tom Collins. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, January 13, 2022. Last Friday’s edition of The Irish News should have come with a health warning. I’m sure I wasn’t the only reader choking on my cornflakes reading Kate Hoey’s ill-disguised rant […]

Read More

Voice of victims is voice of God

Posted By: January 12, 2022

  Fr. Sean Mc Manus. President, Irish National Caucus Letters to Editor. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, January 12, 2022   The Latin phrase ‘Vox populi vox Dei’ (the voice of the people is the voice of God) has its merits, but even more so has this Latin phrase: ‘Vox victimarum vox Dei’ (the voice of […]

Read More

British soldiers waterboarded a west Belfast man, court told

Posted By: January 11, 2022

Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Paratroopers allegedly used waterboarding torture techniques against a west Belfast man in obtaining a false confession to killing a British soldier, the High Court has been told. Liam Holden also claimed he was hooded and had a gun pointed at his head before wrongly admitting to shooting Private […]

Read More

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson  claims a Sinn Féin first minister would be a problem for unionists; last week he said people should not be talking about Irish unity

Posted By: January 09, 2022

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus “Susan McKay—from a Unionist/Protestant background in Northern Ireland—is one of the most important and incisive writers on Northern Ireland. Members of Congress will greatly benefit from reading her articles.” —Fr. Sean McManus  North’s politics take a dark turn in sectarian directionIs Donaldson’s electoral strategy based on re-igniting […]

Read More

Amnesty can’t proceed—Labor

Posted By: January 07, 2022

James Ward. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 7, 2022 PLANS to introduce an amnesty on Troubles-era prosecutions have not gathered enough support to “proceed legitimately, ”Labour has told the government. Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Kyle has written to his counterpart, Brandon Lewis, calling on him to abandon the proposals and find […]

Read More
Page 4 of 512345