Press

NO ‘NORMAL’ POLITICS – NOT IN THIS PROCESS

Patrick Murphy. Irish News ( Belfast). Saturday, June 12, 2014   POLITICS here are not working because we have the wrong peace process. How does that grab you as an explanation for stormont turning out to be something of a political hoax? (the sound of you choking on your cornflakes suggests that it is unlikely […]

Sinn Féin is Destined FOR A Dramatic Dáil Advance When The Next Election Comes

Noel Whelan. Friday, June 13, 2014. I have been wrong about Sinn Féin in the past. I have tended to be premature in predicting its electoral rise. Just over a decade ago, when Sinn Féin had five TDs and its leaders enjoyed heightened celebrity at the centre of the Northern Ireland peace process, I speculated […]

Six Men Dead: The World Cup Massacre

Keith Duggan. Irish Times. Friday, June 13, 2014.   The occasion is enshrined by the full-time score rather than the date: “Ireland 1, Italy 0” has the power to send a generation of Irish people back to an afternoon 20 years ago, when the national soccer team somehow beat the Italians in the now-razed Giants Stadium, in New […]

PSNI Flags Move ‘Most Significant In Years’ Says QUB Flags Expert

BBC NI. Friday, June 13, 2014 Dr Dominic Bryan from Queen’s University, Belfast, carried out a major study examining the flying of flags in Northern Ireland A police decision to clamp down on flags in a mixed area of Belfast is the “most significant” flag policy move in years, an academic expert has said. On […]

Torture Retold: How The ‘Hooded Men’ Case Has Come Back Under The Spotlight

  Fr. Sean Mc Manus arrived in the United States on October 2, 1972. One of his first missions was to convince America that the British Government was torturing political prisoners in Northern Ireland… The Brits branded him a terrorist, a progandist for the IRA, etc., etc. Now 42 years later,  articles like this one […]

Page 22 of 91« First...10...2021222324...304050...Last »