Martin McGuinness

McGuinness calls on British and Irish governments to intervene

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The crisis in the Northern Ireland political process has worsened. Deputy First Minister Martin Mc Guinness has confirmed that he is meeting Gordon Brown to try and rescue the deteriorating situation . A financial package of over a billion pounds was agree for the transfer of policing and justice powers arising from a series of meetings between Mr Brown, Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson.

Major Row Between Westminster and Holyrood

SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

British-Irish council representatives of Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey all voted for the permanent secretariat of the council to be based in Edinburgh. Guess who vetoed the move? You're right, the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain ( pictured above ), who was representing the UK, at a meeting of the BIC on Friday in Jersey. Listen to this for an excuse...

Three from Arja Kajermo

Airforce Amazons (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

After a recent morbid exchange on an issue of blame , I was reminded of the above strip, my favourite of many by Dublin’s leading Finnish cartoonist, Arja Kajermo . (Click image to enlarge.) Regarding God and his mam in the last panel, as Iraqi Mojo will explain, America is God now. In the hunt through back issues of In Dublin magazine for the first strip, I also found this one, on terrorists...

Policing and Justice - agreement on transfer published

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

An Phoblacht 22 Oct 2009 THE financial package from the British Government to support the transfer of powers over Policing and Justice from Britain to the North of Ireland was published on Wednesday. The development follows the latest round of negotiations on the package between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the North’s First and Deputy First Ministers, Peter Robinson of the DUP and...

There was an offer on the table – but the prisoners weren’t told

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

THE HUNGER STRIKE Was there a deal? Irish News 22/10/2009 Richard O’Rawe – former republican prisoner, PRO of the 1981 hunger strikers and author of Blanketmen – responds to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams on claims a deal was available which would have saved the lives of six hunger strikers There is now no room for doubting that the hunger strikers, by their sacrifice and courage,...

Cameron meets Sinn Féin leader

The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009

David Cameron became the first Conservative leader since the Partition of Ireland to meet an Irish Republican leader yesterday, when he told Martin McGuinness that he would support a £1 billion package for Northern Ireland, The Times reports. The historic meeting took place after McGuinness, Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister and a former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, and...

• Cameron ends Tories' long silence with Sinn Féin - Times Online

Will they won’t they parlour games on devolution of Policing and Justice

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

Interesting couple of days in Swansea at the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly (or the British Irish Assembly as one representative called it)... One of the hot backroom topics of speculation was when would the devolution of policing and justice be let down (t he British proposals are expected to released today) . Most non DUP sources Slugger spoke to emphasised the importance of getting the deal...

North policing talks continue

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Martin McGuinness holds more talks with the Irish and British Governments today as negotiations on transferring policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland gather momentum.

Victims group hit by funding cuts in south

SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

By Valerie Robinson Irish News 16/10/09 A group representing victims of paramilitary violence in the Republic is battling to remain active in the face of funding cuts. Justice for the Forgotten, which represents those injured and bereaved in attacks south of the border, yesterday revealed that it has been forced to lobby political leaders on both sides of the border after the government informed it...

Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams Martin McGuinness, Irish Republicanism

rebels yell (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

Adams And McGuinness Asked to Resign This a guest post from an Irish American blogger http://irishblog-irishblog.blogspot.com/ on Irish Republicanism as represented by the current Sinn Fein leadership in Northern Ireland. A Chairde, Many republicans, myself included, subscribed to the view of achieving a 32 county republic first and then developing a Socialist Republic later. It seemed at the time...

Clinton meets N Ireland political leaders to boost peace process

People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on a European tour, met with political leaders in Northern Ireland on Monday to boost the deadlocked peace process there. After meeting with Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, at Stormont Castle in Belfast, Clinton said the U.S. administration was committed to offering support. She said "We...

Hillary Clinton starts Northern Ireland talks

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009

Hillary Clinton uses Belfast visit to urge political leaders to agree on policing and justice and push forward devolution Hillary Clinton has started a round of meetings with Northern Ireland's politicians in a bid to push forward progress on the devolution of policing and justice to Stormont. Later this morning, she will address the Northern Ireland assembly during her visit to Belfast. Speaking...

1981 Hunger Strike: Adams and the Irish News

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

The Irish News’ special investigation on the Hunger Strike has prompted Adams to break his silence on the issue. Unfortunately, he says nothing new, or informative. In fact he actually repeats verbatim points made previously by Danny Morrison, Sile Darragh, and Martin McGuinness - it must be on the hymn sheet passed around Connolly House. It’s understood the Irish News chased Adams for...

Northern Ireland talks move to London

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009

After some progress in Belfast, Gordon Brown hosts another round of talks to break deadlock between DUP and Sinn Féin Gordon Brown will host another round of talks today to break the deadlock over policing and justice between Northern Ireland's two main parties. The first minister, Peter Robinson, and deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, will take part in discussions at Downing Street....

• NI policing talks move to London - SAOIRSE32
• Progress, but no breakthrough, at Brown's Northern Ireland talks - Times Online
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Assembly notes

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009

Couple of things stand out from yesterday on the Hill. First was the umpteenth defeat of the Minister for Education on the 11plus. It’s a bad situation when a Minister is continuously defeated, has lost the confidence of the house (on both sides) and is still able to continue on regardless. Second was the language directed at Martin McGuinness by the DUP during question time - he was described...