Posted By: May 07, 2021
FR. MC MANUS SHOCKED AND PUZZLED BY OMISSION OF HIS LATE BROTHER PATRICK FROM NEW BOOK, Fermanagh: From Plantation to Peace Process by Margaret Urwin. Eastwood Books. Dublin. 2020. “I find it incomprehensible that the only Fermanagh IRA leader (and O.C., Commanding Officer for South Fermanagh and member of the Army Council […]
Posted By: May 06, 2021
David Young, PA. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, May 6, 2021 Politicians on both sides of the border have condemned a reported move to prevent future prosecutions over Troubles crimes. The British government is set to introduce a statute of limitations to stop people from being charged over incidents that occurred before the […]
Posted By: May 05, 2021
Unlike Jeffrey Donaldson, Edwin Poots has always been consistent. He has always been in the DUP. Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Years ago, it must have been the 1994 European election, canvassers in Belfast’s republican New Lodge Road district were taken aback by a few people saying they were […]
Posted By: May 03, 2021
Dr. Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, May 3, 2021 ( Dr. Éamon Phoenix is a political historian and broadcaster and an Irish News columnist. He is a member of the taoiseach’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations and the author of Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940.) […]
Posted By: April 29, 2021
“What a beautiful story. Wonderful and delightful news.” —Fr. Sean McManus he Ulster Canal opened for trade traffic in 1841 but fell into disrepair as the road and rail network improved By Laura Hogan. RTE. Dublin. Wednesday, April 28, 2021. https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2021/0427/1212471-ulster-canal/ A section of a disused canal in the border region of Monaghan […]