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Orange Order defends no tricolour at new museum

Posted By: June 25, 2015

Orange Order defends no tricolour at new museum The Museum of Orange Heritage at Schomberg House, Belfast. Picture by Mal McCann    Brendan Hughes. Irish News. June,24,  2015 Charles Thomas Hall, from Connecticut in the US, was the first visitor to the new museumTHE Orange Order has been criticised for failing to fly the Irish tricolour among an array of flags outside its new […]

MI5 has control of most sensitive aspect of policing in North

Posted By: June 25, 2015

Eamonn McCann. Irish Times (Dublin). Thursday, June 25, 2015. ‘Cameron went completely off script at that point and he said: ‘Look, the last administration couldn’t deliver an inquiry in your husband’s case and neither can we.’”Asked why by Jane Winter of British Irish Rights Watch, British prime minister David Cameron, according to Ms Winter, replied: “Because there are […]

Catholics and Protestants can be good neighbours, McAleese says

Posted By: June 25, 2015

Irish Times. Wednesday, June 24, 2015 Good neighbours should know and respect each other, the former president Mary McAleese said on Wednesday at the official opening of the Orange Order’s new interpretive centre in east Belfast.Ms McAleese and her husband Martin were among the guests who were at the order’s headquarters in Schomberg House for the opening […]

ORCHESTRATING TERRORISM IS AUTHORITIES’ REAL LEGACY

Posted By: June 24, 2015

Allison Morris. Irish News.Wednesday, June 24, 2015 IF IT is truth and recognition the majority of victims seek then it has been a productive few months. Not because of anything the governments at Stormont or Westminster have done – because any official mechanisms to deal with the past remain in political limbo – but because […]

UNIONISTS THE STUMBLING BLOCK TO EQUALITY OF STATUS

Posted By: June 24, 2015

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast).Wednesday, June 24, 2015 WHAT made the difference do you think? Why did the Orange Order accept a determination even more draconian than before from the Parades Commission,  curtailing their behaviour passing St Patrick’s Church on Donegall Street? Why did the Carrick Hill residents call off their protest? Do you think […]

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