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BRITISH LAND GRABS WERE A REAL CRIMEA

Posted By: March 29, 2014

  Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, March 29, 2014.   “HYPOCRISY” is not a word which this column likes to use. While it may accurately describe much of what happens in today’s world, it lacks the finesse of understatement and, in any case, it reminds us of too many people. So, with your […]

‘New and significant’ leads in hunt for killers of British spy Denis Donaldson

Posted By: March 29, 2014

‘New and significant’ leads in hunt for killers of British spy Denis Donaldson IRA informer Denis Donaldson was shot dead in April 2006 GREG HARKIN . IRISH INDEPENDENT.  MARCH 27,  2014  GARDAI have uncovered “new and significant” leads in their hunt for the killers of British spy Denis Donaldson, an inquest heard today. Mr Donaldson, a former IRA member […]

Paid off from the PSNI … then rehired days later: One-fifth of retired officers taken Millions were spent on rehiring former police officers

Posted By: March 27, 2014

BY ADRIAN RUTHERFORD . Belfast Telegraph. Wednesday,  MARCH 26,  2014   A fifth of officers who retired under a scheme to overhaul Northern Ireland’s police service were rehired as agency staff – some of them returning just days after leaving with generous payoffs.   The details emerged in a critical report which accuses PSNI commanders of taking their “eye off the ball” in allowing […]

‘LIBERAL UNIONISTS’ LIKE TO LO LABELLED ‘LUNDIES’

Posted By: March 26, 2014

Brian Feeney, Irish Post March 26, 2014 THE past week has been both instructive and revealing. It’s been an enjoyable spectator sport too for anyone interested in what passes for politics in The North. Enjoyable that is, unless you’re a member of the Alliance party watching the party leader writhing in agony on the two-pronged […]

Posted By: March 19, 2014

Full reconciliation in Northern Ireland may take half a century, warns cross-community champion . BY LIAM CLARKE. Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, MARCH 18, 2014 The chair of the Community Relations Council has predicted that it could take up to half-a-century for Northern Ireland to become a “fully reconciled society”. The stark warning came from Peter Osborne […]