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Portadown bonfire: UUP condemns burning of Sinn Féin posters

Posted By: July 12, 2016

BBC NI. Monday, July 11, 2016 July 2016 Image caption Photographs appeared on social media at the weekend showing posters of Sinn Féin’s Upper Bann MLAs John O’Dowd and Catherine Seeley being burned on a Portadown bonfire The burning of Sinn Féin posters on a loyalist bonfire has been condemned by a unionist councillor who said it “undoes good work” in her community. […]

Single beat on ‘small drum’ restriction outside church

Posted By: July 12, 2016

Connla Young. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, July 12,2016DUP assembly member Mervyn Storey has criticized a Parades Commission decision to restrict an Orange Order in DunloyMembers of Young Conway Volunteers flute band walking in circles outside St Patrick’s Church in 2012BANDS restricted to playing a single drumbeat while passing a Catholic church have been told they can only use […]

Views on north unknown

Posted By: July 12, 2016

John Manley. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, July 12, 2016In the run-up to last month’s EU referendum Theresa May jetted into the north to lend her support to the Remain campaign.Her visit didn’t spark a great deal of attention, probably reflecting a degree of weariness among journalists but also a general lack of interest in the home secretary on this side […]

Tony Blair was a conman even back in those heady peace process days

Posted By: July 11, 2016

Suzanne Breen, Sunday Life (Belfast). July 10. 2016 Tony Blair is a great friend of the peace process. I’ve lost count of how often I heard that phrase uttered by the great and the good over the years. Somehow, I don’t think that too many of them will be lining up beside the ex-Prime Minister […]

Brexit Postmortem: Changes to the Common Travel Area with the UK inevitable

Posted By: July 11, 2016

Before we rush to criticize it is timely to remember that we have moved to curtail rights to Irish citizenshipSiobhán Mullally. Irish Times. Monday, July 11, 2016 Siobhán Mullally is Professor of Law at University College Cork and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. Immigration and free movement have been central to the Brexit vote debates, and continue […]

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