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EXCLUSIVE: UDA men break code of silence to tell of membership hell

Posted By: October 22, 2016

 NewsBy Steven Moore. Saturday, October 22, 2016The UDA is today exposed – by its own men – as a brutal money-making machine hooked on violence.In an unprecedented glimpse inside the UDA, terror group members reveal the fascist-like regime that forces them to hand over membership fees, dish out beatings to their own and force families from their homes.The paramilitary code of […]

Hard landing – prospects of a soft Brexit look remote

Posted By: October 22, 2016

The pound fell dramatically from 76p against euro to 81p on 24 June, immediately after the referendum result became clear David Murphy. RTE (Dublin). Friday, October  21, 2016.It’s five months since Britain voted to leave the EU.The Brexit result stunned the markets. But the immediate question was: What would the UK quitting really mean?So far nobody knows. But there has been a significant impact […]

UDA leader and chief of £1.7m fund in ‘defend territory’ boas

Posted By: October 22, 2016

  First Minister Arlene Foster (center) with DUP councilor Sharon Skillen, loyalist Dee Stitt, Charter NI chairperson Drew Haire and project manager Caroline Birch Staff Reporter. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, October 22, 2016 A LOYALIST leader and chief executive of a body which got £1.7 million of taxpayers money has boasted about “defending” his territory “from anybody”. The self-styled north Down UDA leader […]

Expectation increases that Pope will visit North

Posted By: October 22, 2016

Claire Simpson. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, October 22, 2016EXPECTATIONS have increased that the Pope will visit the north after Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed the Pontiff has been invited to attend the World Meeting of Families in Ireland.The meeting is to be held in Dublin in 2018 but more events are also planned across Ireland.Mr Kenny, right, said Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin […]

Britain’s Irish question becomes Ireland’s English question

Posted By: October 22, 2016

A soft, ambiguous and contingent Brexit could be possible – with Ireland’s helpFintan O’Toole. IrNews. Friday, September 21, 2016 In the satire 1066 and All That, it is claimed that William Gladstone “spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the question”. And now it is the British who have changed […]

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