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 […]
Posted By: March 11, 2016
Angela Rainey. Belfast Telegraph.Wednesday, March 10, 2016 The Belfast Telegraph understands the Parades Commission has approved an application for an Apprentice Boys of Derry march on Easter Monday. However, it will not be permitted to go through republican areas close to Shankill Parish Church. Up to 3,600 participants and 61 bands are expected to pass […]
Posted By: March 11, 2016
By Staff reporter.Belfast Telegraph. Friday, March 11, 2016 Assembly hopeful Donald CrawfordA TUV Assembly candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone who refuses to say if he has any Catholic friends claims nationalists have been “brainwashed” by republicans to despise unionists.In an astonishing outburst, Lisbellaw farmer Donald Crawford also claimed that “we are being overrun” by migrants, with some […]
