Posted By: February 23, 2020
BBC NI. Belfast. Friday, February 21, 2020 Relatives of the murdered solicitor Pat Finucane have not received any assurance from the British Government that a public inquiry into his death will be called..His family met the new Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, at Stormont on Friday.Tanaiste Simon Coveney is also due to meet Mr Lewis soon.He replaced Julian Smith […]
Posted By: September 02, 2014
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Irish Times. Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Sir, – The time for the congratulatory if not superficial tone of your editorialof August 30th (“The first, faltering steps”), noting the 20th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire, is long since past. We have a right to expect far more of the last 20 years. […]
Posted By: September 01, 2014
We must fight government inertia and efforts by unionists to roll back the progress we’ve made since the 1994 IRA ceasefire GERRY ADAMS. The Guardian, Sunday 31 August 2014 The Stormont parliament building in Belfast. ‘A process of change needs continuous nurturing to succeed. If it is not going forward, invariably it goes backwards.’ Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty ImagesSunday marked the 20th anniversary of […]
Posted By: August 31, 2014
Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times. Friday, August 29, 2014, 18:02 The early 1990s in Northern Ireland was a curious period. The Troubles ploughed on, with daily headlines of death and destruction. In the first eight months of 1994, 65 people died in the conflict, three of them RUC officers. Among the killings were six Catholics gunned […]
Posted By: August 31, 2014
By Peter Crutchley. BBC. Saturday, August 30, 2014 It is an iconic image, encapsulating the horror of the Troubles. Father Alec Reid kneels in a Belfast car park as he administers the last rites over the bloodied, near naked body of a British soldier.Two British Army corporals had just been tortured and shot in broad daylight after […]