Posted By: September 09, 2014
Irish Times Editorial Monday, September 8, 2014 Some time in the early hours of Friday week the tallies from Scotland’s 32 electoral areas will be aggregated in Edinburgh, and a result will emerge. With a weekend poll showing a narrow majority for independence there is now a strong possibilityScotland will vote to break up […]
Posted By: September 08, 2014
tom Kelly. Irish News ( Belfast), Monday, September 8, 2014 UNTIL now I have resisted the temptation to write about the Scottish referendum on independence. After all, the issue is for the Scottish people alone. That said, the fallout whether it be yea or nay, will be felt well beyond the Scottish Borders. Firstly, despite […]
Posted By: September 05, 2014
Again and again, the dreary truth keeps asserting itself :the negligence and indifference of the Dublin Government of Enda Kenny is the great danger. Famed author, Tim Pat Googan, joins a multitude of others in asserting this undeniable fact. ” … Dublin took its eye off the Northern ball, thus compounding the foot-dragging effect […]
Posted By: September 03, 2014
Again the noted Belfast commentator pounds away at the core of the problem: negligence by the London Government and “Kenny’s complete indifference to the North.” “No wonder Martin McGuinness renewed his appeal once again for Dublin and London to take the lead in driving political progress. Fat chance with a British general election next May […]
Posted By: September 02, 2014
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Irish Times. Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Sir, – The time for the congratulatory if not superficial tone of your editorialof August 30th (“The first, faltering steps”), noting the 20th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire, is long since past. We have a right to expect far more of the last 20 years. […]