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...that proceeded this dark period of history and even since some kind of stability has been achieved in the region, the status and politics of Northern Ireland have always been capable of dividing neighbors and friends, much less politicians. "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the [Irish Republican terror group] IRA, but he certainly ...was no friend of the U.K.," said Lord Tebbitt, a stalwart of Margaret Thatcher's government, whose wife was crippled by an IRA bomb attack in 1984. "This honor is wholly inappropriate on the basis of the sleaze attached to [Kennedy] after...
...also inveighed passionately against the award on his website. Why such fervor? Kennedy played a high profile role in Northern Ireland's peace process, working to articulate the cause of nationalists whilst also sometimes criticizing Republican extremism. That's a fine balance which does not satisfy the pro-Irish Union, anti-Ted faction in Britain. "The knighthood is a grotesque insult to the memory of British service men and women who died serving in Northern Ireland," says Blaney...
...with many Kennedy critics who have emerged from hibernation since Brown's announcement, Blaney is especially incensed by a remark the U.S. politician made back in 1971. In that year, Kennedy introduced a Senate resolution demanding the ouster of British military forces from Northern Ireland - or Ulster as the Irish called that part of the island. Said Kennedy: "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam... The conscience of America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost...
...might publicly support development aid to Africa, but it is taking advantage of the same tax-avoidance schemes that multinational companies use to deprive developing countries of important revenue.' HANS ZOMER, director of Dochas, an association of Irish development groups, blasting U2 for relocating assets overseas after Ireland ended a tax-free deal for artists...
...keynote speech to a somber Fianna Fail party conference over the weekend, Cowen told Irish voters to expect higher taxes. "Everyone will need to pay more," he said. But with a public appetite for bank-baiting still strong and further wage cuts and job losses on the horizon, most Irish voters are unconvinced that the burden of recovery will be equally shared. Irish voters may be angry, but they're likely to get a whole lot angrier...