Posted By: August 12, 2020
Connla Young. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson has laid out plans for new legislation which would see retired officers compelled to co-operate with her office.The ombudsman, who took up her post last July, has prepared a legal paper which will be presented to justice minister Naomi Long next month.Despite the Covid-19 pandemic she has continued to […]
Posted By: August 04, 2020
Hugh Mooney, Trinity Graduate, rugger-bugger, barrister, one-time Irish Times sub-editor, and British spy by Joseph De Búrca Village. Dublin. May 10, 2018 Her Majesty’s character assassins. Cambridge Analytica is a British company that provides advice to clients involved in political campaigns. Donald Trump was one of its customers. Last month it admitted that it […]
Posted By: August 04, 2020
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Tuesday, August 4, 2020ALMOST £500,000 donated to the DUP in the run-up to 2016’s Brexit vote is “probably the most egregious example of dark money in modern British political history”, according to the author of a new book looking at the growing influence of money on politics.Glasgow-based Irish journalist Peter Geoghegan’s Democracy For Sale takes a journey from Westminster […]
Posted By: August 01, 2020
If Biden beats Trump in November, he will likely side with Irish interests amid Brexit, writes Mark Landler for the New York Times.IrishCentral Staff@IrishCentral Friday, July 31, 2020 With polls beginning to favor Senator Joe Biden over incumbent President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, Mark Landler, writing for The New York Times, discusses how a Biden presidency might be “unsettling” for the UK, […]
Posted By: July 31, 2020
Miami Showband massacre: ‘I heard my platform shoes click against each other. I still had both legs’ Stephen Travers, who survived that night 45 years ago today, now works for reconciliation Yvonne Watterson Irish Times July 31, 2020 The Miami Showband (from left): Tony Geraghty, Fran O’Toole, Ray Millar, Des McAlea (Des Lee), Brain McCory […]