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Kenny should proceed with national forum

Posted By: July 06, 2016

Jim Gibney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, July 6, 2016 The contentious vote to leave the EU, largely carried by the electorate in England and Wales, has triggered a major political crisis in Britain, with the possibility that pro-EU Scotland might rerun the independence referendum and has raised here the possibility of a Border poll in The North.For the people of Ireland north […]

Flat-footed DUP leader needs to step forward

Posted By: July 06, 2016

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, July 6, 2016Confusion reigns in the DUP. The referendum result, which, like everyone else,  they didn’t expect, has knocked them off balance.They have no plans, no policy and no idea how to react. Arlene Foster will never acknowledge she made a serious miscalculation supporting the Leave vote. It may have been politically acceptable to her […]

The Foreign Born Irishman (FBI) who let Hillary Clinton off the hook

Posted By: July 06, 2016

Niall O’Dowd @niallodowd   Irish Central.    Wednesday,  July 06,2016 Biggest call of the 2016 election made by FBI director James Comey who is fearless to a fault. He just made the biggest call of the 2016 election, but FBI Director James Comey has Irish wit and steel to help him through the inevitable attacks.Comey (55) has cleared Hillary Clinton of criminally misusing her email servers […]

Atmosphere between Kenny and Foster hardly warm

Posted By: July 06, 2016

Pat Leahy. Irish Times. Tuesday, July 5, 2016 The way forward for cross-Border negotiations post-Brexit will be mapped by London. The Taoiseach’s discomfiture at the peremptory rejection by Northern First Minister Arlene Foster of his big idea for a North-South Brexit forum was obvious yesterday.Speaking at a joint press conference in Dublin Castle, along with Foster, Martin McGuinness and Minister for […]

How Special Branch betrayed the police

Posted By: July 06, 2016

The extent of the State’s collusion with loyalist killers following the 1994 Loughinisland massacre was an insult to slain RUC officers that unfairly tainted the legacy of a force that tried to put murderers in prison, writes retired detective superintendent Alan Simpson.Alan Simpson. Belfast Telegraph. Tuesday, July 5, 2016Alan Simpson is the author of Duplicity and Deception (Brandon)As someone who joined […]

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