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What’s good for South is good for North

Posted By: June 21, 2016

Letters to the Editor. Irish News (Belfast). Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Taoiseach Enda Kenny has appointed an ‘emigrant senator’ to the Irish Senate to represent the concerns of Irish immigrants in the US – Galway native, Billy Lawless in Chicago. This has been welcomed as a good idea. Well, then – in the interest of […]

Concept of live and let live is beyond the grasp of many Unionists

Posted By: June 21, 2016

“Instead of criticizing the behaviour of their local worthies,  there is silence, broken only by Arlene Foster in a display of pettiness entering the dispute about ‘the north’ versus Norn Irn [Northern Ireland].Is there any danger of her telling Unionists also to use the correct name instead of ‘Ulster’ or the ‘pravince’[ province]?The notion of diversity enshrined in […]

How a Brexit could trigger renewed calls for a United Ireland

Posted By: June 19, 2016

Peter Geoghegan.The Herald Scotland. Sunday, June 19, 2016“A lot of people are fed up. It’ll be a new start for us,” David Reid leans across the glass counter of Ulster Souvenirs on the Shankill Road in Belfast. A portrait of Edward Carson, Northern Ireland’s founding father, hangs behind his head. Across the street, faded images of hooded loyalist gunmen look down […]

Leave vote is rejection of the establishment

Posted By: June 19, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 18, 2016The leaders of the campaign for Britain to remain within the European Union have got it wrong.Their decision to promote a message of fear through big names in politics and business has driven increasing numbers into the Leave camp.As a result, they have avoided addressing a residual distrust of the EU […]

Leave vote is rejection of the establishment

Posted By: June 18, 2016

Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 18, 2016The leaders of the campaign for Britain to remain within the European Union have got it wrong.Their decision to promote a message of fear through big names in politics and business has driven increasing numbers into the Leave camp.As a result, they have avoided addressing a residual distrust of the EU […]

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