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, […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
Brian Feeney.Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, December 24, 2014 THE financial patches painstakingly sewed together over the last few days may work but as for the rest, the usual rancour and finger pointing about implementation. The reason? The DUP is a divided party incapable of negotiating in good faith on anything but finance. The […]
Posted By: December 27, 2014
Gerry Moriarty. Irish Times. Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 20:40After 11 weeks of talks and 26 hours of continuous negotiations from Monday into the eve of Christmas Eve, what the North’s five main parties and the British and Irish governments achieved was significant and substantial – if in some ways imperfect.In this frenetic holiday period, it might not be […]