Posted By: August 30, 2014
Government disengagement from NI / Venn diagram by @StormontCircles By Steven McCaffery.TheDetail.August 29, 2014 On the 20th anniversary of the IRA ceasefire, it’s interesting to wonder if the current British and Irish governments could have delivered an end to the Troubles if they’d been in power in 1994?On the basis of their stewardship of this calmer phase of history, […]
Posted By: August 29, 2014
HOW THE CAUCUS MAC BRIDE CAMPAIGN SCARED THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT Further proof of the effectiveness our Mac Bride Principles Campaign — and how it scared the British Government, as revealed by declassified, official British Government documents in this Irish Times article. Notice how the British Government lumped the Irish National Caucus with Noraid — though the […]
Posted By: August 28, 2014
‘By Vincent Kearney BBC News NI , Wednesday, August 27, 2014 The Belfast Telegraph headline on the day of the IRA ceasefire in 1994 1994: IRA declares ‘complete’ ceasefire Priest played ‘vital role’ for peace. The statement was written in neat, small handwriting on a tiny sheet of paper. I had been met by a […]
Posted By: August 27, 2014
“The result is that now there are no liberal Unionists or at least no one with the nerve to admit it. There are only reactionary Unionists and extreme reactionary Unionist LAST Friday night loyalist thugs broke into a house in Ballygomartin in west Belfast and attacked a 22-year-old man with iron bars and a hatchet. He had the temerity to […]
Posted By: August 27, 2014
UTV. Tuesday, 26 August 2014 Any resolution on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland must include tackling those people living in poverty because of their experiences during the Troubles, a Queen’s academic has said. Troubles poverty link Analysis Research has revealed that more than a quarter of adults in Northern Ireland live without basic […]