Posted By: April 18, 2016
Former police ombudsman tells conference papers are ‘aggressively hostile’ to churchPatsy McGarry in Boston. Irish Times. Monday, April 18, 2016 The media has been criticised at a conference in Boston for contributing to the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland.Speaking in Boston College at the weekend, Baroness Nuala O’Loan said “in a country in which the media was once sympathetic to the Catholic Church, it is […]
Posted By: April 15, 2016
Seamus McKinney. Irish News (Belfast).Friday, April 15, 2016 A blue plaque is unveiled outside the Sollus Centre in the village of Bready, Co-Tyrone by the Ulster History circle. Celebrating Oliver Pollock who was born near Bready and later created the Dollar $ign while working as a highly successful merchant in America. The plaque was unveiled […]
Posted By: April 13, 2016
Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday. april 13, 2016 The whole place is festooned with posters but you don’t detect much interest in the assembly election, do you? Currently it’s the media trying to excite some interest in how the six seats in south Belfast will pan out or whether Sinn Féin can overtake the […]
Posted By: April 11, 2016
Deaglan de Breadun column. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, April 11, 2016 THE battle between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is comparable to the rivalry between Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and has been going on almost as long. At times people have been asked to wear a blindfold before sampling the two soft drink products, to see […]
Posted By: April 08, 2016
Protesting for 1,000 days to march through Catholic areas, where they are not wanted. Why do middle-age men insist on doing this? What point are they trying to make? The Irish National Caucus would be the first to oppose attempts by Nationalists/Republicans to march through all Protestant/Unionist areas. We would see it as an attempt […]