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You tried and failed, Peter – it’s time to go

Posted By: August 29, 2015

Alex Kane. Irish News(Belfast).Friday, August 228, 2015Peter Robinson, First Minister. In early December 2003, just after the assembly election that saw the DUP nudge ahead of the UUP, I wrote a piece setting out the arguments for David Trimble’s immediate resignation as UUP leader.It hadn’t been a disastrous election for the party (27 MLAs to the DUP’s […]

Real peace never part of the plan in unionism

Posted By: August 27, 2015

“The most lasting problem, from the start, has not been IRA guns under the table, nor an IRA structure that became a freeze-dried husk…  The problem that has hobbled progress most is, and has been, the state of Unionism.…His [Nesbitt] is not a leadership that inspires hope of genuine power-sharing… In the same move, he has thrown the […]

O’Loan criticises lack of top women judges

Posted By: August 24, 2015

Bimpe Archer.  Irish New ( Belfast). Monday ,August 24, 2015IT is “absolutely unacceptable” that not one woman sits in Northern Ireland’s highest courts, Baroness Nuala O’Loan has said.The former Police Ombudsman, pictured, said there is no justification for the lack of women in senior positions in the judiciary and criminal justice system.The north is now the only jurisdiction in Ireland and Britain to […]

Kissinger lobbyist link

Posted By: August 23, 2015

Declassified: The 1987 filesBy Staff Reporter. Belfast Telegraph. Friday, August 21, 2015American diplomat and politician Henry Kissinger was earmarked as a candidate to lobby for Northern Ireland in the United States.The idea of appointing a lobbyist was floated in the mid-1980s. Pressure intensified after the introduction of the MacBride Principles – a code of conduct for US […]

NI 1987 state papers: Divis flats demolition would have ‘undermined’ Provisional IRA support

Posted By: August 23, 2015

NI 1987 state papers: Divis flats demolition would have ‘undermined’ Provisional IRA supportBy Éamon Phoenix Historian. BBC NI. Friday,  August 21,  2015 Support for the Provisional IRA was strong within the Divis flats complex, the Irish government saidNI 1987 state papers Demolishing west Belfast’s Divis flats would have undermined support for the Provisional IRA, a senior Catholic bishop claimed in […]

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