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Arlene’s wee country said No to leaving EU

Posted By: June 27, 2016

Tom Kelly. Irish News (Belfast) Monday, June 27, 2016 Every fiber of my body is committed to democracy and as such the result of the referendum giving Brexit campaigners a slender majority is final. That said, such a result doesn’t bind me to its full consequences because the Tory right denied the risk elements but now those risks (which are already coming home […]

Brexit vote puts Union in doubt

Posted By: June 27, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus   Irish News (Belfast). Editorial.  Monday,  June 27,  2016As we assess the full consequences of the disastrous outcome of the referendum which has dictated a UK withdrawal from the EU, there is little point in denying that we are staring at the likelihood of a dark economic and political future which could stretch […]

Scotland could veto Brexit laws to protect its interests – Sturgeon

Posted By: June 26, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus   “Fair play to the Scots!,” said Fr. Sean Mc Manus. “ Nicola Sturgeon is showing far more leadership,  guts, and national pride than many Irish politicians who are too scared to stand up to England. It’s a pity she is not the Taoiseach or the First […]

Irish Times view: Brexit a bewildering act of self-harm

Posted By: June 26, 2016

What we cannot and will not accept is that the EU is the problemIrish Times Editorial. Friday,  June 24, 2016.‘Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom, ” Nigel Farage boasted this morning. Dream on. The truth is that the shocking decision of the UK to leave the European Union, genuinely bewildering to its friends and allies […]

Brexit fantasy is about to come crashing down

Posted By: June 26, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING  Distributed by the Irish National Caucus   “ It beggars belief that the Democratic Unionist Party made common cause with a movement whose logical outcome is the end of the [UK] Union. … There is, of course, a tried and trusted way to hold this kind of rickety social coalition together. It is to turn up the volume on nationalism […]

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