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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted By: June 18, 2016
Deaglán de Bréadún. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 18, 2016SINN Féin is opposed to Brexit but still wants a British exit from the north, party leader Gerry Adams has told The Irish News.Speaking at his office in Dundalk, the Dáíl deputy for Louth, right, said: “It’s not in Ireland’s interest, whatever we think about the European Union, to have one part in […]