What are structures, anyway? And how can they be peace-threatening? I ask because the notion of ‘IRA structures’ has been tossed around mightily over recent days, not least by the three-wise-persons panel who declared that the IRA army council still existed, and that it gave orders/provided an over-arching umbrella for Sinn Féin and the IRA. […]
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Mick Wallace and Jamie Bryson are upsetting Peter Robinson
Picture by Northern Ireland Executive Picture by Mick Wallace Picture by John Baucher Amid all the clucking and squawking regarding the existence/non-existence of the IRA, one word has been conspicuous by its absence: NAMA. That’s because the NAMA controversy, where NAMA property in the north was sold […]
Sshhht! Peter’s talking. I think.
Picture by Northern Ireland Executive You know the way politicians are always telling interviewers: “That’s a hypothetical question you’re asking me and I don’t deal in hypotheses, I deal in the real world”? Well, our First Minister doesn’t go in for that line of response. With one bound he is free of such restrictions: “ […]
Peter looks homeward
As evolutions go, this is a significant one. That’s not how it was intended to be seen. But the facts are there. The DUP isn’t interested in the welfare of the UK. It’s interested in this tight little corner of Ireland alone. Sinn féin, you might say. How else to interpret Peter Robinson’s declaration that […]