The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
POLITICAL SYSTEM:THE CURRENT system of “mandatory coalition” at Stormont will never deliver small, just, effective and efficient government that all of Northern Ireland is “crying out for”, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds told his party’s annual conference on Saturday.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Gemma Burns North Belfast News 2nd of November 2009 The brother of a North Belfast teenager who was brutally tortured and murdered by the UVF 35 years ago next month has dubbed unionist politicians, lobbying Libya for compensation for IRA victims, as "hypocrital" for leaving families of loyalist violence out in the cold. A delegation - led by DUP MLA Jeffrey Donaldson and North Belfast MP...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary says a Tory government would not review ties with Libya even if no deal is reached on compensating victims of IRA violence The Tories have warned unionists that they cannot unravel diplomatic ties with Libya even if Muammar Gadaffi's regime refuses to compensate the victims of IRA violence. Owen Paterson, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said it would be "incorrect"...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
DUP MPs Nigel Dodds and Jeffrey Donaldson have described their trip to Libya to seek compensation for victims of IRA violence as constructive and a “positive first-step engagement” with the Libyan authorities on the matter.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The challenge for our politicians must be ‘do the big thing.’ The raison d’etre for this approach is to convey hope and above all to convince your former political enemy that you are genuinely part of ’ a new dispensation.’ To state the obvious- Loyalists did their fair share of killing during the Troubles just as did the IRA. This week-end Nigel Dodds and Jeffrey Donaldson...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
And here’s a little thing to think on for the weekend… It’s an extract from Good Morning Ulster earlier in the week in which Nigel Dodds appears to lay out another pre condition for the ‘downloading’ of Policing and Justice… Institutional reform… It’s a small detail (and Mr Dodds is not leader, Mr Robinson is), but it is worth noting that it eluded...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
News Letter 22 October 2009 POLICE have confirmed a "viable explosive device" was thrown into a Territorial Army base in north Belfast. Members of the public reported hearing a bang in the Ashfield Crescent area off the Antrim Road, between 1.30am and 2am on Thursday morning. Army technical officers were tasked to examine a suspect device on the perimeter of the Army facility, discovered...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
North Belfast News 19th of October 2009 The chairman of Cliftonville Football Club has hit out at the MP for North Belfast after he called for an investigation to find out if dissident republicans were allowed to stage a collection in Solitude during Tuesday night's Celtic match. Gerard Lawlor was speaking after MP Nigel Dodds said a "full investigation" must be launched to find out if dissident...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
BBC A delegation of MPs has been invited to Libya to discuss possible compensation for the families of IRA victims. Libya supplied guns and explosives to the IRA during the NI Troubles. Lawyers for some of those injured or bereaved by the IRA have revealed that while MPs have been invited, the victims were not. MP Jeffrey Donaldson, who will be on the delegation, said it followed talks he and DUP...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
At the time of the embarrassing debacle of the revelations regarding sending police officers to Libya, Nigel Dodds made the now infamous statement: “Whoever made that decision, whoever thought that was the right way to proceed, must be living in a different world and different planet.” Unfortunately it then transpired that Ian Paisley junior was the chair of the Policing Board’s Human...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
With former and current NI DETI Ministers, the DUP’s Nigel Dodds and Arlene Foster, criticising the NI Secretary of State, BBC NI political editor Mark Devenport takes a suitably sceptical line on the “devolve justice, get investment” argument. [Does that apply to Wales too? - Ed] He also notes comments by the US economic envoy , Declan Kelly. And there’s another argument he’s...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
BBC The deputy first minister has suggested the first minister might be taking "cold feet" on the proposed deal over the devolution of policing and justice. Martin McGuinness expressed anger about the failure of Peter Robinson to meet the PM this week to discuss the matter. Mr Robinson was speaking after a meeting with the PSNI chief constable Mr Robinson said there were differences between...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Map, weedkiller and binbags among £8m worth of items claimed for by NI politicians A £100 map of county Fermanagh, weedkiller and binbags were among the £8m worth of items claimed by members of the Northern Ireland assembly in expenses last year. Figures released today reveal that the claims made between April 2008 and March 2009 include an £861.35 bill for a walnut desk by...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
I argued that the crisis in Unionism is essentially a competitive one, and today David McNarry demonstrates presses on the heels of Sammy Wilson over the problems of, to borrow the words of Mr Munchau a ‘pre-crisis’ budget in a post crisis world ... Months of denial under the stewardship of Nigel Dodds has left Sammy Wilson with a huge mountain to climb, or perhaps more appropriately a...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
DUP MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and Nigel Dodds meet Libyan officials over compensation for victims of IRA violence.
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