Posted By: August 23, 2015
Patrick Murphy. Irish News( Belfast). Saturday, August 22, 2015 PERIOD DRAMA: Sinn Fein may be behind in the polls but it is miles ahead when it comes to re-enactments as proved with the burial of Fenian leader O’Donovan Rossa While the 1916 Rising started a day late, the 2016 Rising has begun a year early. Next year’s rising, of course, will […]
Posted By: August 22, 2015
Michael Lillis,exposed in the Irish News article below, was based at the Irish Embassy in the 1970s. He was a rabid opponent of the Irish National Caucus and tried to destroy us. In those bad old days, many Irish-Americans saw the Irish Embassy as a virtual adjunct of the British Embassy. And, as for […]
Posted By: August 21, 2015
British concern at the growing success of the Irish-American campaign to persuade US state legislatures to adopt the MacBride Principles on fair employment in Northern Ireland is charted in confidential 1987 files released today in Belfast. The MacBride Principles were linked to the former Irish minister, jurist and Nobel Prize winner Seán MacBride, who […]
Posted By: August 19, 2015
Brian Feeney.Irish News ( Belfast). August 19, 2015On Monday the Department for Social Development published a report on the reasons people use food banks. They concluded low income was the main reason.Astonishing. Who’da thought? There’s you thinking people toddled round to a food bank because they couldn’t get a bus to Tesco. You wonder how much that […]
Posted By: August 18, 2015
John Manley. Irish News (Belfast) Tuesday, August 18, 2015PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton has pledged action in wake of Feile debate CHIEF Constable George Hamilton has pledged to look at publishing the British government inquiries into its ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy and security force collusion with loyalists.The PSNI head said he would “progress… and respond” to recent calls for […]