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Saint Patrick’s Day Traditions

http://www.irishnation.com THE WEARING OF THE GREEN The tradition of wearing Shamrock to celebrate Saint Patrick seems to date from the seventeenth or eighteenth century. This was a very turbulent time in Irish history. The suppression of the Gaelic way of life by the ruling British invaders resulted in many aspects of the Catholic religion in […]

ISSUE NOT WHO KNEW WHAT, BUT WHERE DO WE GO NOW?

ALLISON MORRIS. IRISH NEWS( BELFAST). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2014. WHO did, didn’t or pretended not to know about the ‘letters of comfort’ giving around 200 IRA men and women the green light to come home has dominated the news for the last week. That most of them were already living in plain sight, making no […]

DUP POSTURING ENSURES NO TRUTH AND NO JUSTICE

Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast). Wednesday, March 6, 2014. HE came down the steps at Stormont Castle with a carefully chosen coterie of accomplices: Depooty Dawds, the leader of the DUP MPs, Lord Morrow, Diane Dodds – in case people had forgotten she is standing for Europe – and Michelle McIlveen for their task? To […]

British and Irish governments’ ‘silence’ over evidence of collusion in killings criticised

 Author and campaigner address NUI Galway Irish Centre for Human Rights Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in February 1989. Photograph: Pacemaker   • Irish Times. Wednesday.Mar 5, 2014 The “silence” of the British and Irish governments over evidence of alleged RUC and British army collusion in 120 killings on both sides […]

FUMBLES AND FURY HELP DISGUISE ‘LETTERS’ TRUTH

Fionnuala O’ Connor. Irish News ( Belfast). Tuesday, March 4, 2014. IT could have been avoided, like most crises. Peter Robinson and the DUP could have minimised the Downey case instead of inflating it. But that would have been to confront rather than deny the outcome of The Troubles, and the situation that they, and […]

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