A unionist MP and former soldier has said loyalists should be included in the latest effort to achieve agreement on addressing Northern Ireland’s past. Tom…
Browsing: the past
Last month the Belfast Telegraph ran a three-day series of ‘Inside MI5’ articles on its front and inside pages. The paper reported it was the first…
Over the past number of days British Secretary of State James Brokenshire has been scene setting for potentially another attempt to resolve the outstanding issue of…
By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation. Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. It had been…
Theresa Villiers speech last Thursday (11.02.16) outlined the British State’s narrative around our past. While I accept that there are competing analyses and narratives in any…
At the legacy event in Queen’s last Tuesday night (26thJanuary) facilitated by Dr John Barry I briefly outlined Sinn Fein’s attempts to deal with the impasse…
Brian Rowan’s book ‘Unfinished Peace’ is a seminal contribution to dealing with the past. Significantly this book has sought out many voices – voices that…
On the back of a visit to Belfast last week Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the British government and…
In the current talks on dealing with the past the UK government is asserting a veto determining what will and will not be disclosed; this under…
They’re conversations people have every day, totally ubiquitous and banal. Then an appointed one pronounces upon the matter the public discuss every day, the media reacts…
Over the last twelve to eighteen months there has been a renewed emphasis from a number of politicians, academics, political strategists, practitioners and journalists to offer…