Posted By: July 21, 2018
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to the U.S. Congress by Irish National Caucus John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, July 21, 2018 THERESA May yesterday reminded her Belfast audience that when she became the prime minister just over two years ago, she was keen to highlight how the full name of her party was “the Conservative and Unionist Party.”It would perhaps be […]
Posted By: July 17, 2018
Ray Flynn Saturday, Boston Herald. July 14, 2018 (Raymond L. Flynn is a former mayor of Boston and a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.) It has been my experience growing up that people are more inclined to support the underdog than the powerful. At least that’s how my neighbors and I always felt. Catholic immigrants faced discrimination and oppression when […]
Posted By: July 16, 2018
Patrick Mason@IrishCentral Sunday, July 15, 2018Speaking from their Nation Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, National President James McKay of the Ancient Order of Hibernians addressed reports of the recent outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland.“It is with great sadness that the Hibernians have learned of the recent outbreak of violence in the North of Ireland; with riots in Derry and bomb attacks […]
Posted By: July 15, 2018
With Davis and Johnson gone, can any form of Brexit now find a Westminster majority? Denis Staunton. London Editor.Irish Times. Dublin. Saturday, July 14, 2018The Brexit dream turned to a walking nightmare with the resignations of two cabinet ministers Boris Johnson and David Davis.When Theresa May returned to her country retreat at Chequers on Friday, her plan for Brexit was under attack in […]
Posted By: July 12, 2018
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, July 11, 2018 While all the drama at Chequers and thereafter filled the news agenda with customs facilitation arrangements, common rule book, services, no-one in Britain or the Republic cared, and hardly anyone here noticed, that your rights as an EU citizen have gone down the Swanee.Yes, yes, they were supposed to be protected, guaranteed even. […]
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