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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Yet another TV programme this week on endemic loyalist paramilitarism, but this one was different. It showed conclusively that the UVF and UDA have no intention of folding their tents, that they have been taking governments, British and Irish, for a ride for years, conning them out of millions with false promises and outright lies. Why are you not surprised?
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1 week ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Given the events of the previous days in former DUP strongholds like Ballymena, Portadown and Larne, Gavin Robinson’s weekly (or should that be weakly?) email to the party’s dwindling supporters was an exercise in dissembling and dissimulation.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Leader’s Questions in the Dáil has always been a robust encounter between the taoiseach and the opposition benches. However, since the election in November the occasion has become a lot rougher, even at times a disorderly shouting match. There are various reasons for that, not least the bad blood Micheál Martin caused by his ‘stroke’ when he forced through changes in Dáil procedures to allow some Independents in his coalition government to ask questions of ministers.
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Brian Feeney
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2 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Today is the big reveal when the Chancellor of the Exchequer presents her spending review. It’s not just about allocating billions for this year. Much of it will lay the ground work for the rest of this parliament. Indeed a lot of the infrastructure projects won’t be completed until after the next election. What difference will it all make here? The answer is next to none, for at least two main reasons.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Brian Feeney
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3 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
We learn from Freedom of Information (FOI) answers that the omens for a police service representative of the two main communities here are not good. On present trends the percentage of members from the nationalist community in the PSNI is likely to decline. The two governments need to take action to halt the decline and increase nationalist recruitment. Normally officialdom talks about Catholic recruitment, but that’s a euphemism.
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4 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Brian Feeney
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4 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Over the past number of years Gerry Adams has been successfully rehabilitating himself and his reputation in various court cases against the British government. Yesterday’s victory is his libel action is the latest vindication. He has successfully shown his internment was illegal because proper procedures weren’t followed in detaining him. It therefore followed that his conviction for escaping from lawful detention fell, because his detention was unlawful.
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4 weeks ago | 
irishnews.com | Brian Feeney
Tuesday’s decision by the cabinet in Dublin to draft a bill to ban trade with illegally-occupied Palestinian territories is the culmination of years of campaigning by independent Senator Frances Black. Some say it’s seven years campaigning since her original bill was brought to the Seanad in 2018, but of course it’s much longer than that because she had to work to gain enough support to get her bill onto the floor of the Seanad in the first place.
