Posted By: January 27, 2017
Connla Young. Irish News (Belfast). Friday, January 27, 2017 A NEW HIBERNIANISM: The Fermanagh County Board was established at a meeting earlier this week. On far right, AOH Tyrone president Gerry McGeough The Ancient Order of Hibernians has been re-established in Co Fermanagh for the first timE in 60 years. The Fermanagh County Board was […]
Posted By: January 26, 2017
BBC, NJ, Thursday, January 26, 2017 Conservative MP Bob Stewart has said he was “kind of a torturer” during his time as a soldier in Northern Ireland’s Troubles in the 1970s.The former Army officer said that torture is “sometimes” justified, and he had used now-forbidden techniques.The UK government authorized the use of five interrogation methods during the Troubles but later reversed that […]
Posted By: January 26, 2017
Allison Morris.Thursday, January 26, 2017 Another week and another avalanche of allegations and revelations linked to the doomed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. The DUP had at first resisted calls for recipients of the scheme to be named before Simon Hamilton finally relented amid growing public pressure. Although the party should really have embraced the […]
Posted By: January 26, 2017
Belfast Telegraph.Thursday, January 26, 2017A senior DUP figure has claimed that former First Minister Arlene Foster withheld information from the Assembly on the Renewable Heating Incentive scandal.The BBC Stephen Nolan show has reported that Mrs. Foster knew about civil servant Dr. Andrew McCormick’s claim that a special advisor had intervened. Dr McCormick – who is now permanent secretary at the Department […]
Posted By: January 25, 2017
McCord encouraged by victory: “the ruling that Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the Brexit process. Deborah McAleese. Belfast, Wednesday, January 25, 2017Victims campaigner Raymond McCord arrives at the Supreme Court in London, for the third day of the Government’s appeal against a ruling that the Prime Minister must seek MPs’ approval to trigger the process of […]