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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
No-one wants to be the DUP’s European election candidate it would seem. As Ignited reveals on Redemption’s Son, the deadline to apply has been extended to 23rd January, with a selection meeting postponed indefinitely. Clearly Peter Robinson is experiencing difficulties persuading a high profile candidate to stand. With Jim Nicholson set to avail of a slick Conservative campaign team and Jim Allister...
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A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
There’s an inherent contradiction between this: Robinson: Sinn Fein coalition stronger than ever And this: Further splits in the unionist vote will see Sinn Féin top the poll in June’s European election, the Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson warned today. How about you stop treating the electorate as morons and give them the widest possible choice at the ballot box- in other words, why
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
THE NORTH'S First Minister Peter Robinson has questioned the role of the ministerial body that examines all-Ireland issues.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Peter Robinson says his party's decision to support counter-terrorism bill helped deliver major economic investment for Northern Ireland Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent Guardian Wednesday 31 December 2008 Peter Robinson: 'They came up with the goods in terms of the Bombardier deal.' Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Gordon Brown's government did reward the Democratic Unionists for backing the 42-day...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Peter Robinson has demonstrated how bare faced cynicism characterises his party’s attitude toward the Union, boasting that the government has ‘bent over backwards’ to help the DUP after it traded its votes on 42 day pre charge detention. Despite the bill’s subsequent defeat in the House of Lords, despite the fact that its necessity has been repeatedly discredited by top authorities in counter terrorism,...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Both John Coulter and Brian Feeney have been looking back at ‘08 and dishing out unwanted awards in the process. Feeney has picked out the Paisleys as the big losers of the year on the local scene, as well as Mark Durkan. Contrastingly, Feeney has Peter Robinson and Sinn Fein as the main winners; the former for finally succeeding Ian Paisley as leader and the latter for forcefully making the point...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Gordon Brown's government rewarded the Democratic Unionists for backing the 42-day detention of terrorism suspects, Northern Ireland's first minister claimed yesterday. In his new year message, DUP leader Peter Robinson said his party's decision to support the 42-day rule had helped to deliver economic investment. But Robinson repeated an earlier denial that his party had sought or been granted political...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Further splits in the unionist vote will see Sinn Féin top the poll in June’s European election, the Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson warned today.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Gordon Brown's government did reward the Democratic Unionists for backing the 42-day detention of terror suspects, Northern Ireland's first minister claimed today . In his new year message, DUP leader Peter Robinson said his party's decision to support the 42-days bill helped deliver major economic investment for the province. But Robinson repeated an earlier denial that his party had sought or been...
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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
By Peter Robinson, via Forbes: Over dinner with Milton Friedman several years before he died, I offered the great man a compliment. He refused it. I had just re-read God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book in which William F. Buckley Jr., denounced the leftist attitudes he had encountered among the Yale faculty and administration as an undergraduate. Buckley singled out the department of economics as the...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
That, then, was the year pop went wonky. OK, so the soubriquet "Wonky Pop" – coined by Popjustice's Peter Robinson as the banner for a national package tour starring Alphabeat, Frankmusik and Leon Jean Marie back in April – was slightly annoying.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness urge the NI public to vote for Dungiven's Eoghan Quigg on Saturday.
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Cuz We Said So (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Ever wonder how criminals manage to operate their criminal enterprises from behind bars? Peter Robinson wondered the same thing over the summer. “This has always baffled me. One of the reasons we lock up the bad guys, after all--perhaps the...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has censured conduct of Peter Robinson of United States, lead of counsel of genocide accused Joseph Nzirorera, and has ordered that his behaviour be communicated to the professional body of his country of origin.
