The speech Peter Robinson should give
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fair Deal, David Gordon and I wrote three short speeches we thought Peter Robinson should give to the DUP faithful tomorrow. Read them here .
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fair Deal, David Gordon and I wrote three short speeches we thought Peter Robinson should give to the DUP faithful tomorrow. Read them here .
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
NORTHERN Ireland first minister Peter Robinson yesterday admitted he cannot guarantee the future of the legislative assembly, but pledged his Democratic Unionist Party would
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm just back from the rain sodden La Mon hotel in County Down where I was helping out on our live coverage of the DUP conference. I've been asked to contribute a "colour " piece to our main news website so you should hopefully be able to see my more extened thoughts there. In brief, though, this was a well attended occasion in which the party staked its round for the next election. It has...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
JUST caught Peter Robinson on News 24. The section of the speech that attracted the BBC’s attention most was this: I cannot guarantee the future of the Assembly but I can guarantee that it will not be the DUP that will walk away. I can also guarantee that in whatever circumstances we find ourselves, the DUP will act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland. This is the DUP message...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
DUP leader Peter Robinson has told Republicans he will not be bossed about on the issue of the devolution of policing and justice. Mr Robinson told his party’s annual conference: “The last few weeks have witnessed republicans muttering darkly about an emergent political crisis and a threat to the existence of the Assembly. To my mind this is the clearest evidence that it is they and not...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
NI First Minister Peter Robinson admits he cannot guarantee the future of the assembly, but says the DUP will not walk away.
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
An interesting analysis from Peter Robinson, who notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to pass the health care bill but may have a difficult time finding them from among his Senate colleagues . How many senators now caucus with the Democrats? Sixty—the very number Reid needs. Yet one of the 60, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, has already indicated that he intends to support...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The DUP should have taken more time to “sell” its decision to go into government with Sinn Fein, First Minister Peter Robinson has admitted.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
“The days of sitting at the back of the bus are over.” The defiant words of a senior republican who fears the DUP and its leader Peter Robinson are determined to wreck the architecture of the Good Friday Agreement and the principle of power sharing. The source added:
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Earlier this week we had a terrific Book It! discussion over here (with the carpet finally in, we had moved our living room furniture back where it belonged) as we discussed C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, his classic investigation of spiritual warfare, virtue, perseverance, prayer and so much more. One of my all-time favorites, I have probably read The Screwtape Letters a dozen times in the last...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Brian Feeney, historian of Sinn Fein, Round Britain Quiz panellist and Irish News columnist, is gloating over the perceived discomfiture of Peter Robinson as he tries to find firm ground in his troubled party. The latest pimple Brian has been picking at is the police reserve issue which actually appears to have been finessed. Peter seems to working his way through the divisive issues one by one. He...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
DUP LEADER Peter Robinson has dismissed the Eames-Bradley proposals for addressing the past and accused Lord Eames and Denis Bradley and other members of their group of engaging in an exercise in moral equivalence and ambivalence.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Proposals to deal with the legacy of the Troubles were today rejected by Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson.