Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The parents of tragic West Belfast schoolgirl Ciara Park have welcomed the news that buses are to be banned from part of the city centre. St Dominic’s pupil Ciara (16) died last November after being struck by a bus at the junction of Royal Avenue and Donegall Place. The 16-year-old from Margaretta Park was shopping in the city centre when she was struck by a bus. Under the new rules, bus movements...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy is to attend an investment conference in Boston later.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
On the Politics Show today , no video, as well as all but declaring her intention to run in the SDLP leadership contest, the Northern Ireland Social Development Minister, Magaret Ritchie, admitted missing the “non-negotiable” targets for social housing new-builds - “nearly 1300” out of a 1500 target. Meanwhile the NI Regional Development Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Apparently the Northern Ireland Regional Development Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy , has been adressing those gathered at the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Lunch at the Culloden Hotel. “The importance of inter-trade on a North/South basis is also of critical importance in going forward, for the development of the island economy and the opportunities a single island...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
By William Graham Political Correspondent Irish News 01/09/09 SDLP deputy leader Alasdair McDonnell has launched one of the most scathing attacks ever against Sinn Fein, claiming the party was in deep “internal turmoil’’ and that Gerry Adams would be replaced. Dr McDonnell’s remarks, in an article published in The Irish News today, are being seen as the first round in what is...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
A good friend of mine and I were ruminating over the changes that have taken place in Northern Ireland over the past decade when our conversation turned to the always thorny question of language and more specifically what this place is or is not called. You will all remember the Conor Murphy ‘here’ and ‘there’ debate last year and Nigel Dodds insistence that the North does not...
Balrog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
I see that the Real IRA staged a show of "strength" last Friday night in the South Armagh village of Meigh . Eight men armed with AK47 assault rifles and an RPG mounted road blocks on the outskirts of the village and entered the local pub and distributed leaflets. These leaflets threatened locals that they should not have contact with the PSNI/Gardaí or Sinn Féin. From people...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy says there is no support in the area for dissident republicans.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Sinn Fein will not be renewing leases on London flats for its MPs. The party said it had operated within the Westminster rules when its five MPs, reported this year to have claimed almost £500,000 in rental expenses, made their accommodation claims, despite the republicans' refusal to take their seats in the Commons. Today Sinn Fein said it had decided not to renew the leases on flats in London...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
So Sinn Fein has decided to rid itself of its London rental properties following review. MP Conor Murphy said the party's MPs would be using London hotels in future when there on constituency business. He's promised they will be reasonably priced - whatever they cost they couldn't cost as much as the £500,000 chaulked up in rent over several years. Especially when Sinn Fein's MPs were hardly...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
He may have been standing up for Newry at the recent North-South Ministerial meetings noted yesterday [Did the rest of the Executive know? - Ed] , but Northern Ireland Regional Development Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy, MP, MLA, seems surprised that the NI Executive apparently didn’t get around to agreeing the draft legislation on policing and justice powers today. Didn’t...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
An odd iol report records Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, MP, MLA, repeating what he was told at the North-South Ministerial Council meeting on Monday. There’s an associated Sinn Féin press statement. And this from the iol report Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said his party had called the meeting with Mr Cowen to help keep a focus...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The Chairman of the Northern Ireland Assembly Regional Development Committee , the UUP’s Fred Cobain, had previously criticised the relevant NI Minister, Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy, after his unilateral declaration of intent to defer new water charges for a further three years. That was in April. In the Belfast Telegraph today Fred Cobain describes the issue as “a ticking time-bomb”...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
I'm exploiting my privileges to rework my response to Pete's interesting thread on Patrick Murphy's article in the Irish News, “Irish history tends to be a rerun of same events .” Does Murphy's honestly argued piece reveal wider disenchantment with the whole Assembly experience among thinking nationalists? I hope not. He makes a rod for his own back by overrestricting his definition of democracy...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
In an article in the Irish News today [subs req], Patrick Murphy makes some important points about the Northern Ireland Assembly’s compulsory power-sharing system. From the Irish News article. [subs req] In the old Stormont, the opposition was ignored. In the new Stormont, the opposition has been abolished. How democratic is a parliament without an opposition? Advocates of the new system argue...
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