Posted By: February 12, 2017
In seeking to curtail the influence of paramilitaries, police must remember that it’s easier to act from a position of strength than weakness, writes Malachi O’DohertyMalachai O’Doherty. Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, February 9, 2017Whenever commentators and politicians discuss the likelihood of the return of political violence to Northern Ireland, they tend to say the same things. The conditions are not the same now. […]
Posted By: February 12, 2017
UCD research project documents the cultural experiences of growing up ProtestantPeter McGuire . Irish Times. Dublin Thursday, February 9, 2017Her friends were getting married. She made plans for the big day and imagined what she would wear. But her friends were Protestants, and she was Catholic. The priest said that her mortal soul would be at risk if she […]
Posted By: February 12, 2017
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern Picture By David ConachyWayne O’Connor Independent. Dublin. Sunday, February 12, 2017 Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has accused UK leader Theresa May of putting the peace process in jeopardy.In an interview with the Observer, Ahern said that the British government appeared to have resigned itself to establishing a border between the north and south […]
Posted By: February 11, 2017
Diversity is not a threat to social and political cohesion… tearing up mutually binding agreements signed in good faith, however, is Eilis O’Hanlon. Belfast Telegraph. Saturday, February 11, 2017 Arlene Foster said she will never support an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland It’s not that I have any strong feelings about the Irish language one way or another. […]
Posted By: February 11, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGDistributed by IrishNationalCaucusI ACCUSATIONS: SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has hit out at DUP’ scaremongering. Picture: Mal McCannClaire Simpson. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, February 11, 2017ARLENE Foster is trying to keep politics “in the gutter,” SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has claimed.Mr. Eastwood accused the DUP leader of trying to degrade the election campaign and “scaremongering” about the future makeup […]