Posted By: October 29, 2016
Seamus McKinney.Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, October 29, 2016A Bloody Sunday campaigner has revealed he voted Traditional Unionist Voice because he no longer trusts nationalist parties on the abortion issue.Liam Wray, whose brother, Jim ,was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, was responding to an Irish News report that former Sinn Féin mayor of Limavady, Anne Brolly had quit the party over its stance on […]
Posted By: October 28, 2016
Irish News Editorial (Belfast). Friday, October 28, 2016 It is depressing that, after all, the political advances since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, some Loyalists and Nationalists still insist on marking out what they regard as their territory through the public display of various unauthorized flags.Extensive efforts have been made in many districts to reduce, and even entirely remove, symbols which are plainly […]
Posted By: October 28, 2016
“I AM IN THIS TO DO REAL BUSINESS” First minister Arlene Foster has declined an invite to attend next week”civic dialogue” event in Dublin Picture: Press Eye/PA David Young. Irish News (Belfast). Friday, October 28, 2014 First minister Arlene Foster has aimed a stinging broadside at the Irish government’s all-Ireland Brexit forum, insisting she had better things to do than […]
Posted By: October 28, 2016
Victims campaigner Raymond McCord had taken a legal challenge to Brexit at the High Court in Belfast. Picture by Hugh Russell Irish News (Belfast). Friday, October 28, 2016 A CHALLENGE to the British Prime Minister’s power to trigger Brexit negotiations has been dismissed at Belfast High Court. The case was taken by a cross-community group of politicians and human rights campaigners […]
Posted By: October 27, 2016
SDLP leader Mr. Eastwood speaking at the UUP conference on October 22, 2016The leader of the SDLP has suggested that the UK’s pending exit from the EU has caused the “shadow of the past” to fall over the British Isles once more.Colum Eastwood, MLA for Foyle, also accused the UK Government of “amnesia or ignorance” over the effect Brexit will have on […]