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Fermanagh SDLP veterans speak out about party disarray
SDLP Councillors John O’Kane and Fergus McQuillan have spoken out about party problems in Fermanagh. “It would be no secret that the party in Fermanagh needs rebuilding and re-invigorated. There’s certainly room for improvement.” Both men openly critical of their own MLA Tommy Gallagher… “Tommy is a hard man to get on with; he ignores [...] more »
Hardline republicans recruiting on Facebook
A hardline republican group in Fermanagh is using Facebook to recruit young people, reports The Impartial Reporter today. The 32 County Sovereignty Movement, which has a faction operating in the county, is using the website to attract teenagers. The group is regarded as the Real IRA’s political wing, although members would deny this. PSNI Chief [...] more »
Let battle commence
The debate over whether or not Tom Elliott will become the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party is an interesting one. He certainly has a lot of support in Fermanagh and is a hard worker, like the rest of our elected representatives here. Mr Elliott’s own colleagues believe their man will “walk it”. Even [...] more »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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