Posted By: December 29, 2014
Shorts campaign was one of the signature campaigns of the Irish National Caucus, actually predating our Mac Bride Principles campaign. Its seminal importance continues to be highlighted by the release of British state papers under the 20-year ruleGail Bell. Irish News (Belfast). Monday, December 29, 2014Gail Bell delves into the newly released historical government papers to look at business issues. THE percentage […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, December 27, 2014. THE North is to be privatised, its past sanitised and its electorate anaesthetised. That appears to be a reasonable summary of what the Stormont parties agreed in their annual sleep-over at Stormont. The grandly titled Stormont House Agreement (it conjures up images of the […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
News Letter ( Belfast). Friday, December 26, 2014 The Orange Order has lashed out at the Secretary of State over the decision to scrap a panel examining the tense north Belfast parades dispute.Such a move had been promised back in October, following unresolved unionist complaints about the refusal to let three north Belfast lodges return up […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
By Mark DevenportBBC News NI Political Editor. December 23, 2014The agreement addressed a number of contentious issuesThree – flags, parades and the past – were inherited from the failed talks chaired by the US diplomat Richard Haass a year ago. Northern Ireland’s attitude to UK-wide welfare reforms had become an increasingly difficult stumbling block for the […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
MORE ON THE ORANGE ORDER’S COMPULSIVE ADDICTION TO MARCHING THROUGH CATHOLIC AREAS… WHAT EXPLAINS THIS MADNESS?IF SINN FEIN AND IRISH REPUBLICANS TRIED TO MARCH THROUGH THE SHANKILL ROAD OR OTHER PROTESTANT AREAS, THE IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS WOULD BE THE FIRST TO OPPOSE IT. Orange Order criticises Theresa Villiers over parade dispute panel move BBC. December 24, […]
