Bilingual Traffic Signs At The Crossroads

Conor Murphy Signals New Direction For Road Map To A United Ireland Stormont HQ Minister, Conor Murphy, has announced the possibility of a range of bilingual traffic signs in either Irish or Ulster-Scots as a method of promoting minority languages on the Partitioned Island of Ireland.  The Department for Regional Development claims that this proposed policy will help Norn Irony meet its commitments under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Announcing the consultation period for the plans yesterday, Mr Murphy said: "The policy is intended to facilitate the introduction of a number of certain bilingual traffic signs...

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Devolution of Policing And Justice Litmus Test

This is a guest article by Helen McClafferty, Chairperson for the Free Gerry McGeough Campaign.  Helen is of Irish American descent and is a dedicated human and civil rights campaigner. Try and picture this scenario going down... A political candidate stands as an Independent on issues of principle during elections in Zimbabwe. Every political dirty trick and smear in the book is used against him during the campaign. At the end of the election count, he is arrested as he leaves the Poll Count Center and taken for interrogation. The international community, with Britain taking the lead, would be in uproar squealing over the injustice...

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Gerry Bradley Remembered

“I’m not another Denis Donaldson!” ~ Gerry Bradley ~This is an Obituary written by The Pensive Quill on former PIRA Volunteer, Gerry Bradley, and co-author with veteran Irish historian, Brian Feeney, of ‘Insider: Gerry Bradley’s life in the IRA.’ Gerry Bradley’s publication of his memoirs became a highly contentious and thorny issue within the Irish Republican collective. So much so that he and his family were subject to intimidation in their native North Belfast, which extended to graffiti calling him a ‘Tout’ being dubbed on walls.However, there was not complete castigation from the Irish Republican movement and several high profile Republicans...

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