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Lord Prior: Former NI secretary says IRA violence ‘did work’

Posted By: September 26, 2014

  Lord Prior said as time went on it became possible for both sides to get into a position where it was easier to make peace than make war. BBC. September 29, 2014 A former Northern Ireland secretary who served under Margaret Thatcher has said the IRA’s violence worked. Lord Jim Prior was secretary of state […]

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‘Who Won the War in North?’

Posted By: September 26, 2014

    New BBC documentary asks ‘Who Won the War in North?’ Gerry Moriarty.Irish Times.  Friday, September 26, 2014, 08:41 A former senior British Conservative minister, James Prior, has stated that “violence probably does work”, while one of the last of the IRA hunger strikers to end the fast, Gerard Hodgins, has said that in terms of the […]

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Political process ‘untenable’ MP tells Labour conference

Posted By: September 26, 2014

Impartial Reporter. September 25,  2014 . SINN Fein MP Michelle Gildernew has told a Labour Party Conference fringe meeting that the political process in Northern Ireland is in a perilous and untenable position. Michelle Gildernew. Addressing the theme, ‘Labour, Ireland and defending the peace process’ the Fermanagh-south Tyrone representative laid the blame on political unionism having what she said […]

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North still ‘caught in the grip of sectarianism’

Posted By: September 20, 2014

   “[Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie] Flanagan seemed to suggest it was a matter for Northern Ireland parties to resolve.”   North still ‘caught in the grip of sectarianism’ [Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie] Flanagan seemed to suggest it was a matter for Northern Ireland parties to resolve. Noel Whelan. Irish Times. Friday, September 19, […]

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The Dublin Government is a major threat to the Irish peace-process.

Posted By: September 10, 2014

“ … the Irish government [is] more interested in scoring cheap points against Sinn Féin…” Again the noted Belfast columnist, Brian Feeney, hammers home the inescapable truth : the Dublin Government is a major threat to the Irish peace-process. LIB DEMS ARE TO BLAME FOR OUR LATEST CRISIS Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, […]

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