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Any talk of compromise with traditional enemy is a red rag to unionists

Posted By: January 16, 2014

Susan McKay. Irish Times (Dublin). Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Richard Haass appeared to be both angry about and baffled by the rejection by unionists of his proposals to deal with the past, flags and parades. What has happened shows once again that history, with its old lessons of defiance, distrust and obduracy, still blazes up like an 11th […]

Ballymurphy Massacre families angry at ‘snub by Haass’

Posted By: January 16, 2014

An Phoblacht. December 2013. Christmas vigil for 11 killed by British Army Parachute Regiment in 1971  The 11 victims – including a local priest and a mother of eight – were killed by the British Army in a 36-hour period following the introduction of internment without trial on 9 August 1971 THE FAMILIES of 11 people killed in 1971 by British Army paratroopers in Belfast what […]

Martin Corey freed from Maghaberry prison ‘by Theresa Villiers’

Posted By: January 16, 2014

    Republican Martin Corey, pictured in 2012.  COLIN FRANCIS . Belfast Telegraph. Thursday, 15 JANUARY 2014  Prominent republican Martin Corey has been released from Maghaberry prison. It is understood he was freed after a decision by secretary of state Theresa Villiers. Corey, a member of Sinn Féin, was released from custody last night and left Maghaberry […]

Loyalists ‘got wise to’ Paisley over the years, says former Red Hand Commando Jim Wilson

Posted By: January 16, 2014

  Ian Paisley Gemma Murray. NEWS LETTER ( BELFAST). THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2014 East Belfast community worker Jim Wilson yesterday slammed former First Minister Ian Paisley for “side-stepping every question he was asked” during a BBC documentary. On Monday night, in the first of two programmes, both entitled Paisley: Genesis to Revelation – Face to Face with Eamonn Mallie, Dr […]

UNIONISTS PURSUING AN EXERCISE IN STUPIDITY

Posted By: January 15, 2014

  ” Most despicable of all, it’s designed to act as cover for the real reason Unionists won’t sign up to Haass and that is a refusal to accept the rule of law applying to flags, emblems and parades, the last visible vestiges of Unionism’s resistance to the concept of living on equal terms with the rest of the people on this […]

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