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Past is once more of romantic significance

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 […]

TRUTH WILL OUT

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 […]

British diplomats in US lobbied against fair employment campaign

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 […]

Cuts row becoming a fiasco for Villiers

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 […]

Hamilton to consider publishing historical reports

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 […]

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