Posted By: June 06, 2016
Billy Foley. Irish News (Belfast).Monday, June 6, 2016CHIEF Constable George Hamilton has made an extraordinary attempt to interfere in the operation of The Irish News.The head of the PSNI sought to prevent this newspaper publishing an interview with a suspect in the massacre of 10 Protestant workmen at Kingsmill in Co Armagh in1976.Colm Murphy, who has separately been found liable for […]
Posted By: June 05, 2016
So what’s the political future? By Steven McCaffery, The Detail (Belfast) December 11, 2012 Data provided by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency While unionism in Northern Ireland is in thrall to a row over the flying of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall, new census figures reveal the Protestant proportion of […]
Posted By: June 05, 2016
“ In fact … ther leaders are leaning towards the kind of ‘internal settlement’ for Northern Ireland that was opposed in the Good Friday Agreement.The British and Irish governments, for example, have effectively been disengaged for nearly a decade.” By Steven McCaffery. The Detail. May 1, 2016 SINN Féin’s enemies are always offering ideas on how to boost the party’s fortunes.The […]
Posted By: June 05, 2016
Steven McCaffery. The Detail (Belfast) June 4, 2016 SINN FÉIN has asked republicans to consider “transitional arrangements” on Irish reunification including the continued existence of the devolved administration in Belfast.In a speech on Saturday at the Corrymeela peace and reconciliation centre in Co Antrim Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy said supporters of Irish unity should be “open, imaginative and accommodating”.He called […]
Posted By: June 04, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, June 4, 2016 The two main parties at Stormont appear to have moved from coalition to coalescence. The difference is that whereas coalition reflects a short-term political alliance, coalescence suggests a more permanent merging into one unified body.So where, you ask, is the evidence for such an outrageous suggestion – and, even if it were true, what difference would […]