Posted By: July 20, 2016
Kenny says North might in long-term ‘want to extract itself from the UK’ to join country that continued as EU memberMarie O’Halloran. Irish Times. Wednesday, July 20, 2016.Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin: supported the Taoiseach’s move to raise the concerns of Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon about Brexit There is insufficient support for a Border poll now, but the talks on […]
Posted By: July 20, 2016
“First, the agreement clearly envisaged that Northern Ireland’s future constitutional arrangements would be worked out in the context of continuing partnership between the north and the south, and between politicians in London and Dublin. To remove Northern Ireland from Europe without its consent is not only morally wrong and politically risky; it is also a rejection of the fundamental bilateralism of the peace process. … […]
Posted By: July 20, 2016
Tuesday, July 20, 2016The PSNI has refused to remove an overtly sectarian and grossly offensive banner erected to loyalist sectarian killer Billy Wright that celebrates the murder of four men in Boyles Bar, Cappagh, County Tyrone, in March 1991.Responding to the PSNI decisions RFJ Director Mark Thompson issued the following statement:“In the first instance this deliberately aggravated act of hostility has been […]
Posted By: July 19, 2016
John P. Mc Carthy. The Catholic World Report.June 06, 2016 John P. McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University. Recent political developments, such as the passage by over 60 percent of the electorate of a constitutional amendment last year accepting same-sex marriage, definitely suggests a changed Ireland from the 1980s.Rónán Thomas Mullen, […]
Posted By: July 19, 2016
Sinn Féin Minister says Brokenshire needs to realise the North sees ‘its future in Europe’Amanda Ferguson. Irish Times. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said the new British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire, needs to realise that people in the North “see their future in Europe”.The Deputy First Minister was speaking at Stormont Castle on Monday […]