Mark Hennessy
Ireland and Britain Editor at Irish Times
Ireland and Britain Editor. The Irish Times, now leading the "Common Ground" project: https://t.co/sn4E6KLfZV @itcommonground
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Hauliers seek to keep post-storm Holyhead ferry schedule after ‘transformative’ impact on trade flow
2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Irish and British road hauliers have called on the Irish and Welsh authorities to keep changes to Holyhead’s ferry schedule introduced in January after heavy storms damaged the Welsh port. “Ironically, the new schedule has had a transformative and positive impact on the flow of trade between Holyhead and Dublin,” said the Irish Road Haulage Association and the Road Haulage Association UK.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Forty-eight young people aged between 15 and 25 were brought together in five groups by a Belfast-based think tank late last year to talk about the society they live in and the one they want. The encounters, however, illustrate the road that Northern Ireland has yet to travel, marked by a lack of hope that things will change in their lifetimes and even caution about bringing about the very change that they say they want to see happen.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
A graveyard memorial erected to honour a Co Donegal-born RUC officer that was vandalised within weeks is now the centrepiece of an exhibition recalling the Troubles. The deep gashes left by the angle grinder used to deface John Doherty’s marble headstone took time to inflict, but those who stole it from his grave at Castlefin St Mary’s Church in Co Donegal in 2023 had plenty of that.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
More than three decades on, the former British army officer, and now author of two books on the IRA, Jonathan Trigg still remembers the foot patrol in Tyrone, the farmyard and the suppressed rage. Then a 23-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Anglian Regiment, Trigg and his platoon had been dropped by helicopter – the roads deemed too dangerous for them to travel on because of IRA roadside bombs. The British Army was deployed in the North from 1969 until 2007.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Hennessy
Former minister for justice and attorney general Michael McDowell is a man with a “fearsome devotion” to Ireland, former president of Ireland Mary McAleese has said. Launching The Definite Article, a collection of McDowell’s newspaper columns, Mrs McAleese said the Senator is equally dedicated to Ireland’s Constitution, “to its democracy, its principles, its people, its European character, as a sovereign State, and within the EU of course”.
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ARINS is not paid for by the Irish Government
Those who quote demograhics in support of a UI miss two key factors. 1. 2021 census NI shows there is unlikely ever to be a Catholic majority. 2. The Arins poll shows NI Catholics would not be uniformly supportive of a UI. Worth noting, Arins is paid for by the RoI government. https://t.co/8fBEIZ0CX2
Thje former British army officer who is now telling the story of the IRA: ‘Trust is a huge issue’ https://t.co/5WhOnpUy7e
Former Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness: ‘I would love to see a united Ireland before I die’ https://t.co/DSBWYb7Y2P #ireland #thetroubles @ITCommonGround
