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Northern Ireland is not just artificial but anti-Irish and anti-Catholic

Posted By: April 28, 2022

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Northern Ireland is not just artificial but anti-Irish and anti-Catholic Fr. Sean McManus, President, Irish National Caucus, Washington, DC. Letters to Editor. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, April 28, 2022 No commentator on the political realities of Northern Ireland is better than Irish News columnist Brian […]

Posted By: April 27, 2022

      Cormac Moore. Irish News. Belfast.  Wednesday, April 27, 2022. On April 7, 1922, the Civil Authorities of Northern Ireland (Special Powers) Bill, on receiving the royal assent, became an Act. This draconian piece of legislation—which introduced courts martial, internment, flogging and executions— was renewed annually until 1928, for five years until 1933, […]

Being anti-protocol won’t improve living standards

Posted By: April 25, 2022

  IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus  “The DUP and TUV did not sleepwalk into their enthusiastic support for Brexit. They deliberately saw it as a way of destroying or undermining the Good Friday Agreement.” “The above pull-out quote from the article below will spell out to the U.S. Congress the […]

Peace agreements can never honor victims while politicians do nothing

Posted By: April 14, 2022

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus Peadar O’Cearnaigh. The Canary. England. Thursday, April 14, 2022. At the start of this month, victims’ campaigners from the north of Ireland spoke to The Canary. They told us how the victims of the 30-year conflict have been dishonored since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in 1998. […]

DUP and the British government want to overturn the Good Friday Agreement

Posted By: April 13, 2022

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING. Distributed to Congress by the Irish National Caucus  “Belfast columnist Brian Feeney speaks the hard truth—which is that despite great improvement in Northern Ireland, the right-wing, fundamentalist, anti-Catholic section of the Protestant community hates sharing power with Nationalists/Republicans/Catholics. And that section has always been, for one reason or another, supported, in effect, […]