Blog

Hamilton admits plotting with aide to leak RHI emails

Posted By: October 24, 2018

John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 FORMER Stormont minister Simon Hamilton conspired with his special adviser to leak civil servants’ emails in a bid to deflect media attention away from the DUP.The RHI inquiry heard yesterday how the Strangford MLA and John Robinson, now the DUP’s chief spin doctor, decided to make the departmental correspondence public to shift scrutiny […]

Rangers legend Ian Durrant in bigotry row after ‘f**k the Pope’ comment caught on video at football dinner

Posted By: October 23, 2018

  The Nine-in-a-Row hero made the sectarian remark at an event in Bothwell in Lanarkshire.   By Norman Silvester. Daily Record.Monday, October 22, 2018   Celtic and Rangers fans warned of police crackdown ahead of derby clash   Ex-Rangers star Ian Durrant is at the center of a bigotry storm after footage of him emerged […]

Ending abstention could make Westminster work for Sinn Féin

Posted By: October 22, 2018

Rather than staging protests, Sinn Féin could influence change at Westminster to advance Irish republicanism if it ended abstentionism. Deaglán de Bréadún. Irish News. Belfast.Monday, October 22,  2018 EVEN those members of the nationalist community in The North who cannot abide Sinn Féin have to come to terms with the fact that, for the time being at the very least, their political […]

DUP MLAs mock Ulster Unionist Robbie Butler for attending papal visit, and label Pope   “the antichrist”

Posted By: October 22, 2018

IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus  “The appalling sectarianism and virulent anti-Catholicism of the DUP continue unbridled and unashamed, as the article below explains. And, let me repeat, anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland is not just about theological differences—it is above all about ‘keeping Catholics in their place,’  ‘at the back of the […]

Posted By: October 20, 2018

Irish Congressional Briefing Distributed to Congress by Irish Nation Caucus “The folly of Brexit has caused a series of lamentable reactions, but this outburst by Sammy Wison, DUP, must be one of the most appalling. (See below article  from today’s Irish News of Belfast). Taoiseach/Prime Minister Varadker is universally recognized as one of the good […]