Posted By: March 06, 2017
Crocodile comments come back to bite as Sinn Féin benefits from huge turnoutDUP leader Arlene Foster, who had compared republicans to crocodiles during the election campaign, said she hoped for more civility in Northern politics. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty ImagesRodney Edwards. Irish Times. Dublin. Monday, March 6, 2017Sinn Féin’s day came in Fermanagh-South Tyrone on Friday as DUP leader Arlene Foster […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Distributed by Irish National “That the Irish Independent —of all Irish newspapers!— should publish an article like this ought to be very revealing to Members of Congress. This newspaper has spent the last 40 years attacking Nationalists and Republicans who stood up for Catholics in Northern Ireland and called for a United Ireland. No Irish […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Suzanne Breen. Belfast Telegraph. Monday, March 6, 2017 Arlene Foster during a moment of contemplation on election nightArlene Foster last night appeared to be digging in her heels and refusing to step aside as the First Minister designate in a move that could risk the future of devolution.Senior DUP sources told the Belfast Telegraph that Mrs. Foster should […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Who really believed Sinn Féin would come within a whisker of equalling the DUP?Gerry Moriarty.Irish Times. Dublin. Monday, March 6, 2017In the 90-member new Assembly, there are 40 Unionists (DUP, Ulster Unionists, Traditional Unionist Voice and independent unionist) and 39 nationalists (Sinn Féin and the SDLP). It is a long way from the 1921 election in the North when Unionists also claimed 40 […]
Posted By: March 06, 2017
Eamon Phoenix. Irish News. Belfast. Monday, March 6, 2017 Dr. Éamon Phoenix [Belfast] is a political historian and a member of the Taoiseach’s Expert Advisory Group on Centenaries. “The unionist majority in the assembly has been ended.” So declared Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams at a press conference on Saturday. As the dust dies down over last week’s Assembly election, this […]
