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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted By: January 14, 2014
Irish News ( Belfast). Monday, January 13, 2014 A SENIOR Catholic cleric has described the failure to reach compromise at the Haass talks as a missed opportunity. Bishop of Down and Dromore John McAreavey urged parties to sustain the momentum generated in recent weeks to strike a deal. Efforts to agree on a final […]
Posted By: January 14, 2014
Irish News.( Belfast).December 17, 013 John Manley Political Reporter THE man described as the “father and inspiration” for the north’s civil rights movement has died in Dublin. Co Down-born Dr Conn McCluskey died yesterday morning, aged 99. A general practitioner by profession, Dr McCluskey and his late wife Patricia were key figures in the 1960s campaign […]