Looking back on the seventies, the greatest divide, I suspect, between the Irish of the North of Ireland and the Irish of America was in their attitude to the 'underdog'.
A GROUP of young people from the US are embarking on a two-week visit to Ireland and have added some cultural and historical fact-finding in West Belfast to their itinerary.
COMMUNITY Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) have welcomed the publication of the Criminal Justice Inspectorate of Northern Ireland’s Review of the organisation.
POLITICAL unionism has always been an anxious creature. When you’re descended from plantation stock, there’s a tendency to view the world through the opposite of rose-tinted glasses – angry-orange specs? – and regard the natives with suspicion. Even when you and your family have been living in Ireland for hundreds of years, there’s something in your DNA that encourages watchfulness and fears the word ‘change’.