TEN years ago as part of Sinn Féin’s effort to win support for Irish unity we held a series of successful conferences across Ireland, including in Newry, Derry and Cork. We also held conferences in New York and San Francisco. Among those who participated in the US conferences were US Senator Chuck Schumer and Congress […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Join My Midnight message to Irish America (online and tonight)
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OPINION – REV JESSE JACKSON: ‘The riot is the language of the unheard – America needs to listen and to change’
The murder of George Floyd was a lynching in broad daylight. Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck. They watched for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, with Floyd unresponsive for 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that, according to the criminal complaint against Chauvin. They did nothing […]
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SQUINTER: The Lord Hamill’s bus stop, the gentleman bomber and the courteous UDR patrol
A DISCUSSION on Twitter this week about the respective city centre locations of hamburger joints Wimpy and Lord Hamill’s caught Squinter’s attention because back in the 80s Squinter used to get his bus outside Lord Hamill’s (which was in Wellington Place, to answer the question – Wimpy was in Royal Avenue). Early one evening around 1982 […]
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OPINION – LIAM MURPHY: Soundbites as smokescreens to hide governments’ Covid shambles
AS I drove down the Antrim Road last Saturday on what was my first car journey of more than a mile I listened to Raidió na Gaeltachta. I must admit that I don’t understand all that I hear but I ‘get the gist’ of most of it. I choose this station because of the wonderful […]
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North-South loopholes in virus checks at ports and airports undermine travel restrictions
Dr Michael Donnelly reviews the last meeting of the Stormont Health Committee and warns that the scale of the Covid calamity in our care homes is nothing to be proud of. The Chair declared the meeting as quorate and, as Gaeilge, welcomed all to the meeting in the Seanad or on social mediae. The first […]
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OPINION: Time for another ethnic face to light up hallowed halls of Stormont
ONE day, and I hope not too far away from today, another uninvited intruder will enlist him or herself in the hallowed corridors of power at Stormont. The last time an ethnic face featured in that place on the hill was former Belfast South MLA Anna Lo. Remember, the reason Ms Lo made an exit […]
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