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 […]
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 […]
Posted By: January 05, 2022
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, January 5, 2022 Leo Varadkar will replace Micheál Martin as Taoiseach in December, as Mary Lou McDonald’s Sinn Féin continues to outperform both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the polls It’s tempting but foolhardy to make predictions in the first days of a new year. Nevertheless, it’s natural […]
Posted By: January 01, 2022
Marie Louise McConville. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 1, 2022 m.mcconville@irishnews.com IRISH today becomes an official language of the EU. The move marks the end of the derogation process, which had been in place since 2007 and which limited the amount of material published in Irish by the EU institutions. Now, all documents published by […]
