CAPITOL HILL . Thursday, October 7, 2004 Regarding the controversy about Ron Lauder, of the Estee Lauder company, hosting a New York fund-raiser for David Trimble MP, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and leading member of the Orange Order: The Ulster Unionist Party can no more evade the issue of the Orange Order […]
Capitol Hill. December 12, 2003 “The Barron Report into the 1974 Dublin Bombing has revealed nothing new, except to remind us that the Dublin Government had only one policy: ‘Nothing must be done to offend the British Government or say anything that indirectly might help the IRA’”. That is how Irish-Americans will react to the […]
By Ray O’Hanlon Irish Echo. December 3 – 9, 2003 rohanlon@irishecho.com The Bush administration was the target of mounting criticism from Irish Americans this week in the wake of an immigration court decision to deport Belfast man Malachy McAllister, his wife and four children. A statement issued by a dozen Irish American organizations, including the […]
Capitol Hill. November 28, 2003 Irish-Americans see the dramatic increase in the Sinn Fein vote in the Northern Ireland election as a victory for the Irish peace-process.” This huge mandate for Sinn Fein guarantees that there will be no going back. It cements the peace-process in a very powerful way. Now all the Unionists — […]
Wednesday, October 22,2003 By Georgina Brennan and Tom Deignan IRISH American activists and observers initially applauded Tuesday’s historic news out of Northern Ireland. However, the mood darkened when it became clear that David Trimble had dashed the hopes of an historic deal at the last moment. Bill Flynn, the chairman of Mutual of America and […]