Posted By: May 13, 2016
John Brewer. Belfast Live. Thursday, May 12, 2016 John Brewer, Professor of Post Conflict Studies at Queen’s University gives his opinion as the dust has settled on the Assembly elections The dust has now settled on Last Thursday’s Assembly elections in Northern Ireland. Some commentators got very excited as the results slowly unfolded, thinking there was evidence of […]
Posted By: May 13, 2016
Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, May 12, 2016 The role of Leader of the Opposition is certain to go to UUP leader Mike Nesbitt, as representative of the largest partyThe passing of an Opposition Bill by an independent Assembly member who has since lost his seat has paved the way for one of the most momentous changes since political powersharing was […]
Posted By: May 13, 2016
Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times.Friday, May, 13, 2016 The story was supposed to be about the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and maybe to a lesser extent about Eamonn McCann and Gerry Carroll and People Before Profit Trotskyists in the marble halls of Stormont.But, as Martin McGuinness noted, Mike Nesbitt, with his old journalistic instincts to the fore, went for a change of headline by announcing […]
Posted By: May 11, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, May 11, 2016We now have a preposterous stance from the UUP and SDLP. To be sure it has softened from their original position that if they didn’t get what they wanted included in the programme of government they wouldn’t join the executive.Their present position is that they will consider the Programme of Government and if they […]
Posted By: May 09, 2016
Deaglan de Breadun.Irish News (Belfast). Monday, May 9, 2016ENDA KENNY has been re-elected taoiseach in a nail-biting finish but his Fine Gael party is living in sin with Fianna Fáil.The term has gone out of fashion in recent years, due to the compelling argument that couples cohabiting outside wedlock should not be labelled in such a way. But we can still […]
