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OH FOR SOMEONE WITH THE GUTS TO TACKLE PAST

“In the meantime the inertia of Dublin and London is entirely responsible for last week’s dangerous circumstances. Unfortunately neither the NIO[ Northern Ireland Office] nor the Department of [Irish ]Foreign Affairs has a politician with the guts, principle or imagination to take the matter in hand and act to prevent similar danger to peace erupting next month or next year.” Brian Feeney, Irish […]

POWER GAMES HINDER ANGLO-IRISH DEBATES

  Denis Bradley. Irish News ( Belfast). Friday, May 2, 2014. AFTER 20 years, the core questions that informed the Good Friday Agreement are beginning to grow legs. Twenty years back places the genesis of those legs not so much in the agreement itself but in the beginning discussions between the two main killing machines, […]

WHO NEEDS CONSENSUS WHEN YOU’VE GOT LAWS?

“Shortly afterwards, the UVF was conveniently in charge and meeting with the PSNI from east Belfast to Wales. The human rights and community policing philosophies appeared to have been retrofitted onto acquiescence with a criminal gang.”                                                […]

STARS LONG BURNT OUT OF NARCISSISTIC DISSIDENTS

Allison Morris. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, April 30, 2014   THE killing of former dissident republican Tommy Crossan was a tragedy for his family but there were few others queuing up to eulogise the 43-year-old. His particular ‘brand’ of republicanism endeared him to few, even within his own community.   The shooting in broad […]

LEADERLESS LOYALISTS MARCH INTO OBLIVION

Brian Feeney. Irish News ( Belfast). Wednesday, April 30, 2014.   IF you compare the pantomime in Larne at the weekend with pictures of the UVF in 1914 or the proto-UVF in 1912 you’ll notice important differences. The fact that the men who paraded on Saturday were on average markedly fatter round the middle and […]

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