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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC 19 Nov 09 Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard has been selected by Sinn Fein colleagues to become an assembly member in East Derry. He is succeeding the party's Francie Brolly who is to retire. Mr Leonard is a former Orangeman, RUC reservist and member of the SDLP. Following his selection he said it was an honour to be chosen to replace Mr Brolly "and to represent the people of East Derry"....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peter Robinson warns Sinn Féin that policing and justice row threatens devolution Northern Ireland's first minister vowed yesterday not to walk away from the Assembly, even if the row with Sinn Féin over policing and justice remains unresolved. But Peter Robinson warned Sinn Féin that its threats to the assembly's institutions were destabilising the entire devolution project....
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Dreaming In Text (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tomorrow I am off to Chester on a week long course organised by The Reader Organisation in association with the Royal Literary Fund. About fifteen other Royal Literary Fund Fellows will be there and, as far as I can tell, we will be spending rather a lot of time talking about poetry. My feelings about this course are a bit like the feelings I had before going on a camp with the cub scouts when I was...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
For those who follow Northern Ireland politics, there is one thing which happens from time-to-time, when the Democratic Unionist Party runs a candidate in a seat which is held by the Ulster Unionist Party (or which has recently been held by the UUP), and the unionist vote splits, leading to a nationalist, from the Social Democratic & Labour Party or Sinn Fein, either winning or coming close to...
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Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A conference is being held in Iraq examining how NI peace principles might be applied to the city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi oil fields and is an ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen and Arabs. A delegation including Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey, the Independent Monitoring Commission’s Lord Alderdice [...]
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As noted on the delay in progressing the Education Bill , yesterday the ESA Chief Executive Designate, Gavin Boyd said “However the Minister has made it very clear that she remains focussed on the agreed implementation date of 1 January. She plans that the Education Bill will move to Consideration Stage as soon as possible, so that it completes its Assembly passage early next month and becomes...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Former member of the Orange Order and the RUC reserve, Billy Leonard, is selected as a Sinn Fein assembly member.
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The DUP should have taken more time to “sell” its decision to go into government with Sinn Fein, First Minister Peter Robinson has admitted.
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A former RUC officer and Orangeman is to become a Sinn Fein MLA replacing retiring Assemblyman Francie Brolly.
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sinn Féin have introduced some badly needed independent thinking into the economic debate in this state. It amazes me that there is such a tendency...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein colleagues to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Coleraine councillor Billy Leonard is selected by Sinn Fein to become an assembly member in East Londonderry.
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BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The DUP has released a 35 page document on the eve of its annual conference under the optimistic title of "Building On Success". If you were to read Peter Robinson's foreword you might conclude that the party is about make a great leap forward. The party leader says that "once again unionism faces a choice in the next few years. Do we build on what we have achieved or risk throwing...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The decision by the Northern Ireland Education Minister, Sinn Féin’s Caitríona Ruane, not to move the Consideration Stage of the Education Bill in the Assembly in October risks another vacuum developing in the education system. There’s also been a subsequent DUP amendment tabled which would appear to seek to restrict the Department’s ability to bring into operation some...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The media has already established its angle on the North Antrim general election contest. It’s all about Jim Allister and whichever Paisley is nominated to rebuff his challenge. To a degree the preoccupation with the DUP / TUV contest is understandable. After all, in 2005 Senior romped home with more than 25,000 votes and Ulster Unionist candidate, Rodney McCune, was beaten to second spot by...
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