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Graffiti warns Catholics to stay away

Posted By: July 01, 2015

CONNLA YOUNG. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, July 1. 2015. SECTARIAN graffiti warning Catholics to stay out of loyalist areas has appeared on walls across east Belfast.The sinister development came as interface tensions continue to rise ahead of the annual Marching Season.Nationalists claim that flares and other missiles were hurled at Catholic-owned homes in the Bryson Street and […]

Fallout from Greek referendum will impact on the Republic’s election poll

Posted By: July 01, 2015

Brian Feeney. Irish News( Belfast). Wednesday, July 1, 2015 MUCH excitement in the southern media about Sinn Féin being down three per cent in a Red C poll at the weekend. Then of course there would be much excitement because the southern media are unanimous in their hostility to Sinn Féin and grasp at any […]

Flag row distracts from real financial problems

Posted By: June 29, 2015

Claire Simpson. Irish News ( Belfast). June29, 2015  There is no money. It’s official. The whole of the north is completely broke. Finance minister, the DUP’s Arlene Foster, has looked down the back of the sofa and found only a bit of fluff, a bent paper clip and a piece of Lego.  There was some excitement when […]

Unionist failure on Protestant working class education

Posted By: June 29, 2015

Fionnuala O’Connor. Irish News.( Belfast). June 23 2015 The latest quote of that finding that Protestant boys from ‘disadvantaged areas’ come near the bottom of UK GCSE results, just above Traveller and Roma children, turned up in a report last week that looks to Catholic education as an inspiration. And unionists repressed their instinct to […]

Belfast High Court rejects call for Finucane inquiry

Posted By: June 27, 2015

Gerry Moriarty . Irish Times. Friday, June 26, 2015   The High Court in Belfast has rejected a call by the Finucane family for a decision that would have compelled the British prime minister David Cameron to hold a public inquiry into Pat Finucane’s murder.Lord Justice Stephens in issuing his findings on a judicial review taken by the […]

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