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By Joseph de Búrca While the UK’s 2019 general election will focus on Brexit, the outcome will have far-reaching implications for Buckingham Palace and Her Majesty’s intelligence services. Boris Johnson is unlikely to order a new inquiry into MI5 and MI6’s role in the abhorrent Kincora scandal, nor the role played by Lord Louis Mountbatten […]
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By Joseph de Burca Introduction: Margaret Thatcher and the cold blooded murder of an Irish lawyer. On 12 February, 1989, the UDA assassinated Patrick Finucane, a highly regarded Belfast solicitor, at his North Belfast home. Finucane, who was 38-years-old, was shot 14 times by two masked UDA gunmen who sledgehammered their way into his […]
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More people die of economic inferiority in this country every year than died in 30 years of the Troubles. Even when our police force are shooting unarmed men, Irish liberals side with the establishment, in untypical silence.
In the four Dublin local authorities there are just 1000 units on-site and a further 1900 at various stages of procurement/planning. Over the coming years that’s under 3000 new build units – not even enough to house all those who will become homeless and those currently in emergency accommodation.
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