The apparently ongoing influence of IRA structures over issues such as the return of a power sharing government is "a fundamental corruption of democracy" an academic has warned.
Three weeks ago, this newspaper did a two-page feature (see link below) on the (latest) pro nationalist interference in Northern Ireland by Simon Coveney.
Staff at a fast food restaurant in Portadown noticed that a 23-year-old woman who used the drive through twice was under the influence of alcohol, Craigavon Magistrates Court heard last Wednesday.
Jailing a 59-year-old man a judge told him that an allegation he had made against a member of the medical profession had the capacity to 'ruin another human being's life'.
In February 1974 Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath built his election campaign around the slogan, "Who Governs?" The answer, which he clearly wasn't expecting, was "not you, mate." In June 2017 Theresa May (as lacking in style and substance as Heath) built her campaign around the slogan, "Strong and Stable Leadership in the National Interest." She got a similar response from the electorate. Like Heath, all of the available evidence and polling seemed to be in her favour. Yet, also like Heath, she was faced with a Labour leader (it was Harold Wilson in 1974) who clearly loved elections, meeting the public and diving head first into debate.
Detectives are appealing for information following a serious assault on man in the Gordon Street area of Belfast in the early hours of this morning, Saturday, June 2.
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