The leader of the SDLP sparked a political firestorm last night when he accused the DUP of not wanting ‘a Taig about the place’. Alasdair McDonnell travelled from talks at Stormont to speak to party members after Minister for the Environment Mark H Durkan cut the ribbon on the SDLP’s new Glengormley constituency office. Senior […]
Archive | September, 2015
SDLP leader’s ‘Taig’ comment sparks political storm
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NAMA: Gareth Graham gives evidence to powerful US enforcement agencies in New York
The growing NAMA scandal moved up a gear yesterday as one of the key figures travelled to New York to give evidence to federal investigators from a range of powerful United States enforcement agencies. Gareth Graham, who last week made a series of serious allegations to the Stormont finance committee about the handling of his […]
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Martina tells of scenes of Syrian suffering after visiting refugee camp in Jordan
Desperate Syrian refugees packed into a camp in Jordan begged Sinn Féin’s Martina Anderson not to forget them when she visited the desert camp this week. The MEP, who visited Jordan for three days and returned on Monday, said people here must keep up the pressure on politicans to help the four million people displaced […]
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Housing body takes photographs of its tenants in their living rooms
A HOUSING assocation has begun taking pictures of its tenants in their living rooms, we can reveal. Apex Housing officers spent yesterday (Wednesday) visiting homes in Derryveagh, Lenadoon, snapping headshots of tenants in their homes. The social housing agency sent letters to its tenants in Derryveagh last week informing them that they would be in […]
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Perils and perks of reporting in the world of social media outlined by former RTE reporter in Manhattan speech
The perils of reporting via social media were partly evident even as Mark Little, one of the great success stories in the new business of social journalism, addressed the Irish Business Organisation in Manhattan. As Little concluded showing a video on Storyful, the company he launched in 2010 and sold to Newscorp for £13m ($20m) […]
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New Belfast Rapid Transit system put back a year because of cuts
WEST Belfast motorists can expect a further year of traffic gridlock as the finish date for the ambitious Belfast Rapid Transit (BRT) system has been delayed until 2018, we can reveal. The BRT was expected to be fully operational by autumn 2017. But continuing cutbacks at the Department for Regional Development – currently without a […]
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