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Trimble: reviewing the process

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In a piece we’ll come back to several times today, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz draws some revealing thoughts on the peace process from the leader of the UUP David Trimble: “If you are going to have a stable political structure, …

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Davies to stay with interface families

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The Tory shadow spokesman on Northern Ireland is to spend a week living with families in interface areas.

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Loyalist suspicion

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Jim Dee talks to members of a Loyalist community on the very edge of South Belfast, and finds little but suspicion of Sinn Fein and their motives.

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Stormont crisis: hidden invitation?

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Interesting interpretation on events around the time of the suspension of the Assembly, by Republican Tommy McKearney. Again thanks to the Badger’s Radio. This interview with McKearney in July 2000 provides another view of Sinn Fein’s political motivations.

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NY Post boycott?

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Niall O’Dowd editorialises on the New York Post editorial we covered earlier.

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McCann on Cahill

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Eammon McCann on another book review, this time for the Sunday Tribune, kindly reproduced in The Blanket. Of the book he is, frankly, disparaging. But the interest lies less in the book and more in McCann’s view of the life …

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Mark Durkan: interviewed

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I was out at a conference yesterday, so the blogging was not as comprehensive as I would have liked. Gail Walker explored the human angle on Mark Durkan in Thursday’s Belfast Telegraph.

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McClarty on loyalist violence

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David McClarty one of the Unionist representatives on the recent South African trip defends his decision to talk with representatives of Loyalist paramilitaries in the face of accusations from Alban McGuinness of hypocrisy.

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From Basingstoke to Lisburn

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Andrew Hunter, currently MP for the Hampshire town of Basingstoke, is making overtures to the voters of Lisburn. The DUP may see his defection to them from the Conservative party as part of its strategy to push their credentials as …

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Ooops…

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I owe this one to Newt at the Portadown News. The Irish Independent in its editorial on Thursday said: “Earthquakes and floods are rare indeed in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. Malfunctioning traffic lights are about the nearest that favoured location ever comes …