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Ruling could be own goal for EC

Posted By: September 05, 2016

Tom Kelly .Irish News (Belfast). Monday, September 12, 2016EUROPEAN Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will be expecting no Christmas cards from the Irish finance minister Michael Noonan this year as her ruling on software giant Apple could topple a very fragile government.Taking on the killer whale of American corporations, Ms. Vestager seemed heaven sent to uber-liberal lefties and smoked salmon socialists who were salivating at […]

Debate needed before new vote

Posted By: September 05, 2016

Irish News Editorial. Belfast. Monday, September 5, 2016 “If the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is also to be effectively rewritten along the way, as is widely feared, Irish citizens can be expected to draw their own conclusions.” The ‘new conversation’ on independence which has been launched by the Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon will be followed with intense interest in all parts […]

Northern Irish campaigner Raymond McCord will take British government to court over Brexit

Posted By: September 05, 2016

By  Erica Doyle Higgins. Irish Post. Monday, September 5, 2016. PROMINENT Northern Irish victims’ rights campaigner Raymond McCord is set to take the British Government to court following the historic Brexit vote.Raymond McCord is launching a case of judicial review at the High Court in Belfast today.Mr. McCord and his lawyer, Ciarán O’Hare, have said that triggering Article 50 of the […]

Ritchie calls for Loughinisland prosecutions

Posted By: September 05, 2016

John Manley. Irish News  (Belfast).Monday, September 5, 2016Secretary of State James Brokenshire is being urged to back the prosecution of those behind 1994’s Loughinisland massacre.South Down MP Margaret Ritchie will lead the call during Wednesday’s Westminster debate on the latest Police Ombudsman’s report into the atrocity.Michael Maguire’s report in June highlighted collusion between police officers and the […]

Brexit was a bad idea, Obama tells British PM

Posted By: September 05, 2016

Steven Swinford. Irish Independent. Monday, September 5, 2016 Barack Obama has said he believes that Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU and suggested it could still be at the “back of the queue” for a new trade deal. The US President used a joint press conference with Theresa May at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China […]

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