William Scholes: 'Orange Order betrayed by Belfast hooligans'

Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish News of January 2 2014:

"The Haass talks failed because the DUP would not sign up to a legally binding code of conduct for parades."

He continued:

"In August 2014 Sinn Fein's IRA parade in Castlederg aped the worst aspects of the loyal orders to deliberately challenge unionism with the moral (or immoral) equivalence. Castlederg would have breached any code of conduct many times over and unionism could have sold a code to its voters on that basis."

Then:

"Instead, it appears that the DUP's priority is to continue humouring the worst excesses of the loyal orders, whatever the wider cost."

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Alex Kane - Damaging the cause they claim to promote

Flag protesters are making a key error: they are now damaging the cause and brand they seek to promote. Get off the streets and into talks.
— Alex.Kane (@AlexKane221b) December 21, 2012

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Eamon Holmes on leadership

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Loyal to whom?

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Matt Johnston (@cimota) on catholic education in Northern Ireland

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UVF orchestrating racist attacks

https://twitter.com/bbcmarksimpson/status/451734921716170752

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Irish schools discriminate against 'new Irish'

The NUIG Whitaker Institute study, which focused on Galway as the most culturally diverse area in the State, says this will result in a significant “under-representation” of children of migrants in third-level institutions.

The research found non-migrant children were twice as likely to sit higher level Leaving Certificate mathematics than Irish-born children of foreign-born parents.

Non-migrant children are also 2.25 times more likely to sit higher level Leaving Certificate science than Irish-born children of foreign-born parents.

The study by Dr Valerie Ledwith and DrKathy Reilly at NUIG’s school of geography and archaeology found 66.7 per cent of non-migrants planned to attend university, compared to 56.2 per cent of migrant peers. They attributed this trend to a “regime of power relations that privilege the position of Irish nationals” when it comes to school enrolment and attendance.

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The research also shows that young migrants are less likely to take Junior Certificate subjects at higher level, which restricts the student to sitting that subject at ordinary level for the Leaving Certificate.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/schools-discriminate-against-new-irish-study-warns-1.1729721

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