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Attempt to sectarianize Unionist disorder a serious and malevolent development

Posted By: April 13, 2021

  Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, April 9, 2021.   Wednesday night’s disturbances were the most serious in years for a number of reasons. For the previous week, sporadic violence was confined to predictable unionist districts, but on Wednesday there was an attempt to invade nationalist [Catholic] west Belfast through the most dangerous interface […]

DUP seriously damaged by its inability to discipline Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson

Posted By: March 27, 2021

DUP MP Ian Paisley seems to have few qualms about undermining his party leadership       Newton Emerson. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 27, 2021.   Radio Ulster has not revealed the identity of the “senior DUP figure” who told it an Irish language act could be blocked until the Northern Ireland protocol is scrapped.   […]

Unionists “perilously close” to rejecting the political process

Posted By: March 27, 2021

Bimpe Archer. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 27, 2021   UNIONISTS are “perilously close” to rejecting the political process, former DUP leader and first minister Peter Robinson has warned.   Mr. Robinson warned, “it would be wrong to assume that in time unionists will calm down and eventually acquiesce. That is not my assessment”.   […]

For unionism to progress, it must dump Paisleyism

Posted By: March 06, 2021

  Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 6, 2021.   As Unionists grapple with the Irish Sea border in the courts and on the docksides, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that once again Unionism is in crisis.   Of course, that’s nothing new. Unionism has been that way since August 1968, when […]

Jonathan Powell: DUP opposition to protocol is motivated by fears of being outflanked by hard-line rivals

Posted By: March 06, 2021

    John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 6, 2021   THE DUP failed to speak out against the Irish Sea border when Boris Johnson was agreeing to the Brexit deal with the EU, former No 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell has said.   He questioned the party’s stance on the protocol, suggesting […]

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