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Bríd Rodgers hits out at DUP acting first minister

Posted By: September 12, 2015

John Manley. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, September 12, 2015Former agriculture minister Brid Rodgers A former SDLP minister last night claimed the “mask had slipped” after the DUP’s Arlene Foster said she was remaining in the executive to make sure nationalists do not damage the unionist community.Bríd Rodgers described the new interim first minister’s remarks about “rogue” Sinn […]

Role reversal at slapstick Stormont

Posted By: September 12, 2015

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, September 12, 2015 PATRICK MURPHY SATURDAY COLUMN KC NEWS Stormont is so inept that it has been unable to organise its own collapse. A harsh view of this week’s unfolding drama, you might argue, but it is hard to avoid the conclusion that, like a second rate actor dying […]

The Troubles were bad. Life is worse now.

Posted By: September 12, 2015

The Irish Times  Sat, Sep 12, 2015 Political issues dominate the news in Northern Ireland, but in west Belfast people are more concerned with cuts, rampant poverty and unemployment Bernie says she wouldn’t survive without the group. Tara says it’s her lifeline. Debbie says that without it she has nothing. Paula says it keeps her […]

Robinson’s brinkmanship finally went over the brink

Posted By: September 12, 2015

THE IRISH NEWS – Saturday 12 September 2015 Newton Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, September 12, 2015 Peter Robinson is all tactics and no strategy, which is how his brinkmanship ended up going over the brink. Each step the DUP leader took during the past two weeks to triangulate himself between the UUP and […]

America’s dark and not-very-distant history of hating Catholics

Posted By: September 12, 2015

CatholicismProgressives and conservatives are in a rare unity welcoming Pope Francis to the US, but anti-Catholicism was rampant before John F Kennedy was presidentRory Carroll in Los Angeles. The Guardian. Saturday 12 September 2015 Congress and the United Nations rolling out their red carpets, nuns working overtime to bake communion hosts, prison inmates carving a walnut throne, tickets for events snapped […]

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