Posted By: March 17, 2016
“That said I was still disappointed at Arlene Foster’s comments during her party’s spring conference when she whipped up fear at the prospect of a Sinn Féin first minister if people didn’t vote for the DUP.Somewhat naively I thought we’d see a different style of leadership from the doomsday scenario politics we’d come to expect during the final years of Peter Robinson’s tenure.While no one expects […]
Posted By: March 16, 2016
Irish News.(Belfast). Wednesday, March 16, 2016The message was later deleted from Mr Paisley’s Twitter accountIAN Paisley jnr has mocked the Republic’s Easter Rising commemorations, saying that on July 12 “at least we celebrate victory”.The DUP North Antrim MP made the remarks on Twitter with a link to images of Taoiseach Enda Kenny meeting US vice president Joe Biden ahead […]
Posted By: March 14, 2016
John Manley.Irish News (Belfast). Monday, March 14, 2016Brendan Smith said Brexit would be a disaster for the border counties.The UK’s withdrawal from the EU would signal “political and economic disaster” for Ireland’s border counties, according to a Fianna Fail TD.Cavan-Monaghan representative Brendan Smith said the flow of goods and people between the north and the Republic is at a historic high […]
Posted By: March 14, 2016
Terry O’Sullivan links Irish Easter Rising with current battle against US Republicans Simon Carswell . Irish Times. Saturday, March 12, 2016Terry O’Sullivan, president of the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), speaks during a news conference with Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon (l), in Washington, DC, US. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images There were moments when it felt like Irish-American trade union leader Terry O’Sullivan […]
Posted By: March 12, 2016
Patrick Murphy. Irish News (Belfast), Saturday, March 12, 2016 Is the SDLP’s decision to hold a second annual conference today, just four months after the last one, an indication of progress or panic? The party says it is progress, promising a “robust alternative” (to what?) and a new stage in its political life. The panic […]