Cahir O’Doherty @randomirish IRISH CENTRAL. May 29,2014 Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson is facing growing public outrage and calls for his resignation.Photo by: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson is facing growing public outrage and calls for his resignation this week over anti-Muslim comments he made during an interview with the Irish News. […]
Newton Emerson.Irish News ( Belfast). Thursday, May 29, 2014. LAST weekend’s elections have set the political agenda in Northern Ireland for the rest of the decade, indicating that if Stormont survives it will be in a state of limbo. The council and European results are the third and fourth elections since 2009 in which Sinn […]
BRIAN FEENEY. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, May 28, 2014 FOR the DUP there’s only one figure that jumps out of the elections, local and European, and it’s not the 131,000 odd that their uninspiring European candidate polled. No, the figure that liquefies their bowels is 75,806, the vote that their nemesis Jim Allister polled. The DUP tried to […]
News Letter Editorial ( Belfast). Thursday, May 28, 2014 Note of explanation :The News Letter is seen as the most “ Protestant” — hardline Unionist/Loyalist newspaper in Belfast. In the past, it would have been regarded as being Paisleyite ( pro DUP )whereas the Belfast Telegraph would be seen as more pro Ulster Unionist Party. […]
By Gerard Howlin. Irish Examiner ( Cork). WednesdayMay 28, 2014. THERE is a symmetry to the departure of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, the highest-ranking alumni of the former Sinn Féin the Workers’ Party, The Workers’ Party, Democratic Left tradition, after a devastating defeat at the hands of Sinn Féin at the polls. There is no division […]