Posted By: January 26, 2014
Scotland still doesn’t know quite what to make of the Irish in its midst Kevin McKenna. The Observer. ( London). Sunday 26 January 2014 More than a century and a half after they first began to arrive here in numbers, Scotland still doesn’t know quite what to make of the Irish in its midst. For […]
Posted By: January 26, 2014
John Coulter. Irish Daily Star ( DUBLIN). JANUARY 20, 2014 For it is written, Vengence is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. In this case, the immortal piece of Biblical Christian advice provided in Romans Chapter 12 should refer to ex-First Minister and DUP boss Ian Paisley, now Lord Bannside. Tonight’s (Monday) second part […]
Posted By: January 26, 2014
His Honour Mr Justice Peter Smithwick MAEVE SHEEHAN AND JIM CUSACK. IRISH INDEPENDENT. (DUBLIN). SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2014 A group of retired senior gardai has submitted a report to government criticising the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal in an unprecedented challenge to a State tribunal by former members of the force. The senior officers are questioning the tribunal’s […]
Posted By: January 26, 2014
HENRY MCDONALD –Irish Independent, Saturday, 25 JANUARY 2014 Ian Paisley cut an anguished figure on the BBC this week as he railed bitterly against his ‘beloved son’ and protege Peter Robinson, who he blames for plotting his humiliating political downfall. Henry McDonald reports Ian Paisley To the Paisley family, Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinsoncould resemble those double villains of King Lear, Goneril and Regan all rolled into one. […]
Posted By: January 25, 2014
Alex Kane. News Letter (Belfast).January 13, 2014 For the past few years Ian Paisley has had a broader, more sympathetic audience than at any other point in his career. He has conveyed the impression of a chuckling, clubbable, kindly man: a former hardliner who has willingly converted and then travelled to the centre ground in […]