Posted By: January 07, 2022
James Ward. Irish News. Belfast. Friday, January 7, 2022 PLANS to introduce an amnesty on Troubles-era prosecutions have not gathered enough support to “proceed legitimately, ”Labour has told the government. Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Kyle has written to his counterpart, Brandon Lewis, calling on him to abandon the proposals and find […]
Posted By: January 05, 2022
Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, January 5, 2022 Leo Varadkar will replace Micheál Martin as Taoiseach in December, as Mary Lou McDonald’s Sinn Féin continues to outperform both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the polls It’s tempting but foolhardy to make predictions in the first days of a new year. Nevertheless, it’s natural […]
Posted By: January 01, 2022
Marie Louise McConville. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, January 1, 2022 m.mcconville@irishnews.com IRISH today becomes an official language of the EU. The move marks the end of the derogation process, which had been in place since 2007 and which limited the amount of material published in Irish by the EU institutions. Now, all documents published by […]
Posted By: December 31, 2021
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/12/30/news/irish-language-skills-of-first-world-war-soldiers-from-loyalist-heartland-revealed-2547866/ Many of the gaeilgeoiri from inner east Belfast who fought in the First World War were Protestant David Young, PA. Irish News. Belfast.Thursday, December 30, 2021. Researchers studying the backgrounds of First World War soldiers from a part of Belfast traditionally associated with loyalism have discovered that 74 of them were […]
Posted By: December 28, 2021
British diplomat was told they seemed to share unionist suspicions about nationalists Harry McGee Political Correspondent. Irish Times. Dublin. Tuesday, December 28, 2021 Irish officials became increasingly frustrated at negativity and foot-dragging by the British government following the announcement of the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 describing its deliberately sluggish response as “bloody-minded”. A senior […]