Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Sinn Fein and the DUP have clashed over Sports Minister Gregory Campbell's failure to congratulate Tyrone's All-Ireland winning footballers.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Sunday Journal.ie **Via Newshound 28 September 2008 Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney has called for the DUP to end their internal debates over the future of the Long Kesh site and urged the Culture Minister Gregory Campbell to get on with delivering on the sites potential and the creation thousands of much needed jobs. Raymond McCartney said: "Minister Campbell must be decisive and move the Long...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
We all know where the DUP stand when it comes to the Irish language. Or do we? Traditional Unionist Jim Allister has written to Culture Minister Gregory Campbell after he obtained documentation through an FOI request which revealed that DCAL had sent a paper to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which stated: “Given the provision of indigenous language radio services in Wales and Scotland,...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
I note that a political row has erupted here in Northern Ireland over comments made by Sports Minister Gregory Campbell after Tyrone won the GAA Sam Maguire Cup. Mr Campbell defended his remarks, insisting Tyrone and Kerry are “in different countries”, and therefore the match was an international occasion.SDLP leader Mark Durkan accused Mr Campbell of disrespecting the Gaelic games tradition. He said:...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Culture Minister Gregory Campbell urges people to accept that a 'languages strategy' is the best way forward.
Balrog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
DUP MP and ardent Cream Buns fan Gregory Campbell this week sent a letter to Celtic to state his opposition to ‘pro-IRA’ songs and chants at Paradise. According to Greg he got his Orange Order Y-fronts in a twist because Rangers have attempted to tackle the issue of sectarianism while Celtic have not. Gregs latest rant raises a number of issues. Firstly he claims that Rangers have done enough to stamp...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Breaking News.ie 19/09/2008 The North's DUP sports minister has refused an invitation to visit Celtic Football Club, accusing the club of not doing enough to stop sectarian singing. Gregory Campbell said Glasgow Rangers had taken steps to stop their fans singing sectarian songs but Celtic had not done enough. Mr Campbell, acting in his role as an MP only and not as sports minister, had earlier written...
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Just because the members of our "government" are presently throwing their rattles at each other across the kindergarten floor, you shouldn't think that “governance" has also ground to a halt: Culture Minister, Gregory Campbell today met with his Scottish counterpart, Linda Fabiani who is Minister for Europe, External Affairs & Culture. A fact conveniently omitted, in order not to disturb the backwoods...
Everything Ulster (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The Belfast Telegraph reported on Monday that DCAL minister Gregory Campbell is about to scrap the Maze stadium plans. Amongst all the boring and spectacularly un-newsworthy talks between the DUP and Sinn Fein, apparently the DUPes and the Sinners have done a deal that will see the Sinners get the terrorist shrine built at the Maze along with housing as well as retail and leisure facilities, but the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Here's a glorious piece of revisionism about my home city. Derry's second class citizens” did not need to take to the streets i n 1968 to get jobs and houses. Academics rush in where even Gregory Campbell might fear to tread. Just for now we'll keep the Fountain out of it. Remember Eamon McCann's minor classic War in an Irish Town with its frank admission that divilment as well as injustice was...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The DUP's Gregory Campbell has been questioned about the removal of the National Flag in County Fermanagh.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Gregory Campbell accuses republicans of raising tensions after trouble at an internment bonfire in Coleraine.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
IAIS 08/06/08 00:21 EST Northern Ireland's sports minister has said he will make a decision about the proposed Maze stadium within the next few weeks. The Democratic Unionist Party's Gregory Campbell was speaking at a reception for Linfield Football Club at Stormont on Tuesday night. Mr Campbell said he had been looking at the issue of a national stadium with an open mind. "Now I'm the minister, I...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Sports Minister Gregory Campbell says he will make a decision about the proposed Maze stadium within the next few weeks.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Whilst the Northern Ireland Executive grinds to a halt the DUP and Sinn Féin have been visiting Gordon Brown in Downing St. Separately, of course. [I’m sure he appreciates the timing - Ed] . NI First Minister Peter Robinson, and Culture Minister Gregory Campbell, dropped in yesterday. Today it was the turn of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, MP, MLA. The DUP has played down...
