Posted By: June 06, 2014
Inside the DUP: Domination by Free Presbyterian Church and Orange Order laid bare Exclusive: The most definitive study of Northern Ireland’s most powerful political party ever undertaken DUP leader Peter Robinson pictured at Parliament Buildings, Stormont BY LIAM CLARKE . Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, JUNE 5, 2014 The influence of the Orange Order and the Free Presbyterian Church within […]
Posted By: June 06, 2014
By Stephen Walker. BBC News NI Political Reporter. Thursday, June 5, 2014 One of Belfast’s SDLP councillors has said there is a problem with the party’s message and it needs fixed.Claire Hanna was speaking after her party fell short of its own council election targets and failed to win a seat in the European elections. She […]
Posted By: June 06, 2014
Elaine Edwards. Irish Times. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has called for the reopening of the 1970s case alleging torture by the British government against the so-called Hooded Men. The call follows the screening last night of The Torture Files, an RTÉ investigation into the events. “In August 1971, 340 men were arrested and interned. Fourteen […]
Posted By: June 06, 2014
General view of the Maze Prison / Long Kesh front gates. Picture: Diane MagillFiJune News Letter ( Belfast).Friday, June 6, 2014 The Government allegedly abused its power by deciding to jail Protestants without trial in the 1970s in a bid to balance mass Catholic internment, the High Court heard yesterday. Counsel for one of the men suing […]
Posted By: June 06, 2014
The former Lib Dem leader, back in the thick of it, reflects on the paths not chosen – and why we must remember our French allies on D-Day Lord Ashdown wouldn’t have settled for Foreign Minister… he always had his eye on PM Photo: JANE MINGAY By Tom Rowley. The Telegraph. Friday, June 6, 2014 “I’d be no […]
