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The appointment of Trevor Ringland as Northern Ireland’s special envoy to the U.S. has been questioned by the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), which issued a statement via its National Freedom for All Ireland chairman Martin Galvin.
“The appointment has heightened concerns that the British government plans to renege on the Stormont House Agreement and shut the door on legacy justice for those killed during the Troubles, Galvin said in the statement.
Read more Mr. Ringland has been advocating this approach in a letter-writing campaign for more than a decade, and now describes his role to the Belfast daily paper the News Letter as ‘challenging’ the strong Irish American lobby, and what he regards as Irish America’s ‘simplistic views’ on the North.
First woman appointed to head Northern Ireland s judiciary
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Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan becomes NI s first female top judge
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SORRY seems to be the hardest word as well as it being the title of a song by Elton John, it could also describe the reluctance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to formally apologise to the families of the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre.
Criticism was directed at Johnson following the ruling on May 11, when Mrs Justice Keegan concluded that the victims of the shootings were “entirely innocent” and the British army was responsible.
Keegan went on to criticise the lack of investigation into the tenth victim John Kerr and said she could not rule who had killed him.
Yet despite this ruling laying the blame on the British army, it took until May 19 before Johnson finally did the decent thing and formally apologised to the families.