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The record needs correcting. Britain deserves the main credit for ending the Troubles 27 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
Keeping up the legacy of history theme, The Newsletter has asked Paul Bew to develop his idea for the release of government papers on Northern Ireland earlier than the new 20 year rule. The QUB histor...
“that’s why Richard Haass needs proof – right from the start – that the will to construct a deal really does exist” 26 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
Having abandoned their first, draconian, attempt to control regulate Public Assemblies, Parades and Protests, Sinn Féin and the DUP may now face a wider variety of emboldened dissenting voices in seek...
“giddy zephyrs of the purest conjecture…” 25 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
In yesterday’s Irish News Newton Emerson poured cold water on some recent idle speculation – as noted by Alan. From the Irish News Speculation is mounting that Peter Robinson plans to step down as D...
More on the trend of reconciliation in the decade of commemoration 25 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
Stephen Collins writes in the Irish Times: So far the decade of commemoration for the great events spanning the 1912 to 1922 period that led to Irish independence has been marked in a similar s...
The Maze is part of a shared past 24 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Malachi O’Doherty is magnificently right. The best result for the Maze project would have been/ still should be to provide an unsparing and comprehensive account of the Troubles, murders, conspirac...
Housing Equality Shouldn’t Have To Wait 23 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
Yesterday saw yet another housing inequality report, Equality Can’t Wait, published by north Belfast based Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) – the organisation which Inez McCormack founde...
DUP illustrate unionist leadership as #RuthPatterson is in court 23 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
Yesterday Ruth Patterson attended court for her Facebook post and provided an interesting piece of optics for the television cameras. In a considered move, a variety of DUP ministers and other public ...
Focus on the problem of corruption more useful than a political duel over housing models. 23 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
So, one of the stories during the week worth noting is the controversy that St Matthews’ Housing Association got itself embroiled in. At the centre of the controversy was the prioritisation of transfe...
Northern Ireland’s Lost Opportunity: The Frustrated Promise of Political Loyalism by Tony Novosel — Book Review 23 Aug 2013 | 02:49 pm
Northern Ireland’s Lost Opportunity: The Frustrated Promise of Political Loyalism, is a book that has received surprisingly little attention since it was published this year (Pluto Press, 2013). Writt...
“Statement needed from Gerry Adams on Sinn Féin claims re Garda Donohoe” 22 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
And five days after that extraordinary press briefing, Niall Collins of Fianna Fail says Gerry Adams needs to answer questions about what he knows of the murderers of Garda Aidan Donohoe. This literal...
