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 […]
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. […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]