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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 […]

Future looks cloudy from south of The Border

Posted By: June 25, 2016

Deaglan de Breadun. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 25, 2016IT IS fair to say that the political establishment in The South is in a state of shock after the Brexit referendum result.True, there was increasing concern prior to the appalling murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. But after that terrible event there was a sense that public opinion in the UK […]

Now executive must provide leadership

Posted By: June 25, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial Saturday, June 25, 2016 The EU referendum vote result is a political earthquake and as with any large-scale tremor it will take some time for the consequences to become clear.We are now in the territory of the unknown with the political establishment in Britain, Ireland, Europe and beyond shaken to its core.The first casualty of the shock Leave […]

The English have placed a bomb under the Irish peace process

Posted By: June 25, 2016

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus “I never imagined then that I would ever feel bitter about England again. But I do feel bitter now, because England has done a very bad day’s work for Ireland. It is dragging Irish history along in its triumphal wake, like tin cans tied to a wedding car. … Though not strictly […]

Now executive must provide leadership

Posted By: June 25, 2016

Irish News (Belfast). Editorial Saturday, June 25, 2016 The EU referendum vote result is a political earthquake, and as with any large-scale tremor, it will take some time for the consequences to become clear.We are now in the territory of the unknown with the political establishment in Britain, Ireland, Europe and beyond shaken to its core.The first casualty of the shock Leave […]

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