Posted By: March 01, 2017
Brian Feeney.Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, March 1, 2017Three days from now we’ll know the outcome of the assembly election.What happens next? If you’ve been following the campaign at all for the last couple of weeks, you’ll know tomorrow’s election is not to a new executive but to new negotiations. They will take a long time.Certainly, any suggestion that Stormont […]
Posted By: March 01, 2017
Irish News Editorial. Belfast. Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Tomorrow voters go to the polls in one of the more unpredictable elections of recent times.The reality is it is an election that none of the parties really wanted, and certainly, none had planned for, coming just ten months after the last assembly poll.Last May it was all fairly predictable in […]
Posted By: February 28, 2017
Irish News Editorial. Belfast. Tuesday, February 28, 2017For more than two decades following the IRA and loyalist ceasefires and through the peace process, the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent years, the EU has offered significant financial support to improve cross-community relations.This Peace money, as it is known, has funded a large number of initiatives, groups, and projects which are designed to overcome division and […]
Posted By: February 28, 2017
GERRY ADAMS, president of the Sinn Fein political party, claimed Brussels eurocrats should “quite likely” protect its interests by sanctioning Britain over Brexit.Joe Barnes. Express. London. Tuesday, February 28, 2017The Republican hinted at the possibility of “tariffs and economic penalties” being put in place as part of the European Union’s deal to allow Britain to exit the bloc.He also called […]
Posted By: February 28, 2017
Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Evidence test: Loyalist Winston Rea at a court hearing last year Picture: Hugh RussellGun attacks: John O’Hara and John Devine were murdered in separate gun attacks more than 20 years agoA VETERAN loyalist facing prosecution over the murders of two Catholic workmen in Belfast more than 25 years ago could […]