Posted By: April 17, 2014
Newton Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, April 17, 2014 SO IT can be done. The PSNI has faced down loyalist rioting in Carrickfergus, thought to have been orchestrated as a warning against arresting members of the ‘bad’ UDA. The PSNI has been making arrests in Carrickfergus while investigating a riot in Larne two weeks […]
Posted By: April 16, 2014
Allison Morris. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, April 16, 2014 Journalists often get carried away when describing political events – historic, monumental, symbolic – but apart from bulking out the word count such terms are rarely used appropriately. I have a different barometer for judging the importance of events. if I get into a taxi […]
Posted By: April 16, 2014
Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, April 16, 2014. POLITICS in the southern states of the US used to be all about race and indeed in some parts today still is. Racial tensions reached a peak in the 1960s when southern whites were faced with the civil rights movement, federal enforcement of integration and […]
Posted By: April 14, 2014
Tom Kelly. Irish News( Belfast). Monday, April 14, 2014 CHRISTOPHER Moran, chairman of Cooperation Ireland gave a speech in 2013 to assembled members from both the house of Lords and Commons where he said: “The message is clear. We must invest in communities and peace or we will pay in conflict. This means delivery on […]
Posted By: April 13, 2014
Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, April 12, 2014 IT is no coincidence that the GAA should sell broadcasting rights for some matches to Sky TV at the same time as Sinn Fein’s boys of the old, white tie brigade enter Windsor Castle. The two events reflect the latest dismantling of Irish political and […]