News review for week ending Friday 5th October 2018

“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist,” 2 John 1:7.

Powerful DUP figure admits party broke the law while in Stormon

RHI Inquiry: Evidence U-turn on ‘hierarchy’ from DUP Spad Timothy Johnston

RHI Inquiry: Sinn Fein side-stepped law on Spads – and mandarins let them, says Johnston

Jonathan Bell was a minister who was viewed by party colleagues as being “superficial”

Stormont Ministers misled the House – Jim Allister, TUV leader.

If Arlene Foster doesn’t survive RHI, who would replace her as DUP leader?

Experts ‘knew green scheme was flawed’- RHI inquiry

Man wanted by RHI Inquiry has left Northern Ireland

RHI Inquiry: Charity boss knew of scheme’s flaws but didn’t try to get them fixed

RHI presented as ‘all-singing, all-dancing future’ says SDLP’s Patsy McGlone

RHI Inquiry: Powerful DUP Spad’s story undermined by new email

Bryson ‘corruption’ blog went straight to DUP finance minister

Spad ‘plotted to film drunk DUP minister’

“Every DUP member should hang their head in shame at what took place in their name and with their support!!”


Conservative conference: Arlene Foster to address Tory delegates

Tory party conference – Northern Ireland ‘at centre of UK universe,’ says Rees Mogg – UK won’t ‘sacrifice’ union for EU deal, says Hammond

DUP ‘won’t accept’ Brexit Irish Sea customs checks

Brexit: DUP threatens to pull plug on Theresa May’s government

Sinn Fein slams Arlene Foster’s Good Friday Agreement Brexit remarks – Allister asks ‘why can’t it be changed?’

Poll: 60% of voters believe Theresa May will agree to Brexit border in Irish Sea

‘Catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit would ‘crash the economy’, Tory business minister admits

Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross

Theresa May tells Conservative Party Conference UK will leave EU ‘with no deal if we have to’

EU negotiators say deal ‘VERY CLOSE’ as border deadlock broken – pound SOARS


Legacy Scandal: ‘IRA has used the grace it was afforded by victims to accuse the state of a dirty war,’ says Owen Polley

Legacy Scandal: ‘Some of us in the IRA concluded back in the 1970s that violence was wrong’

Legacy Scandal: ‘An IRA bomb killed my son yet it was me who had to quit the victims forum while a boastful bomber stayed’

Victims group: Legacy proposals rejected by 90%

Legacy Scandal: ‘London and Dublin must not let IRA snatch victory from jaws of defeat,’ says Ruth Dudley Edwards

Legacy Scandal: ‘A pool of extremely brave agents were central to defeating terrorism,’ says agent handler

Troubles legacy plan ‘lopsided’ says Police Federation

Legacy consultation: Police Federation brands proposals ‘ludicrous’

Eilis O’Hanlon: Despite the pieties, Sinn Fein still laughs in IRA victims’ faces

Gerry Kelly’s clarification on Troubles protagonists pathetic: UUP chief


Mairia Cahill calls on Sinn Fein to admit IRA investigated sex abuse as TD says he ‘absolutely believes her’

Sinn Fein still engaged in live cover-up says Cahill as rulebook discovered


Tory MPs urge May to reform Northern Ireland’s ‘barbaric’ abortion laws

Tory MPs call on Westminster to de-criminalise abortion in Northern Ireland

“That which these foolish women call ‘barbaric’ is based upon the Word of God. Further evidence of  the blindness in the nation.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20.


Karen Bradley (NI Secretary of Sate) confirms £13k cut to MLAs’ salaries

“Even in Ulster, the ‘Gravy Train’ has to run out of steam sometime!!!”


Church leaders tackle Northern Ireland politicians on stalled Assembly

“As an outcome of which, they will not only be ‘stalled’ but now will be ‘bogged-down’!!!”


Portadown (Co Armagh) honours Anne Acheson who invented plaster cast for bones


Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland to get fertility treatment on NHS

“What a scandalous and wicked waste of public finances!”


BBC sorry for mistake over nationalist voting rights

“They are sorry today but will repeat the ‘propaganda’ tomorrow. Nationalist-minded media people have ever used their position to spout these deceptions!!”


Child porn Northern Ireland civil servant still in post year after conviction

Bishop told of concerns over sex abuse at parochial house


RUC officer’s brother pays tribute as UK remembers police lost in line of duty


PPS still to decide whether to prosecute Gerry Kelly over car clamp incident

“No prizes for guessing why they haven’t prosecuted this senior Sinn Fein member and convicted IRA murderer!!!”


Woman says drugs find money was for holy communion


West Belfast man Michael Patrick Reilly denies Birmingham bomb allegations


Kingsmills inquest: Ex-soldier linked to 32 murders can’t be arrested

“Popery is the mother of such a spirit of glorying in murder!


Parliament’s statue of Cromwell becomes latest memorial hit by ‘rewriting history’ row

Brett Kavanaugh: Only 31% of US voters believe Supreme Court nominee over sex assault allegations


Bloody Sunday: Families of two men shot dead awarded £700k

Jim Allister writes to PM over ‘shocking disparity’ in victim compensation following £625,000 Bloody Sunday claim

“Whether this is right or wrong is not for me to say, but we note that no victim of IRA terrorism was ever compensated to this degree!!!”


Arlene Foster: No return to 50/50 PSNI recruitment

Nelson McCausland: Sinn Fein wants return of 50:50 recruitment in PSNI… reason enough not to reintroduce it


Bid to ban Union flags flying at Northern Ireland courthouses fails

“Where else in the world would such a notion be entertained for a moment????!!!”


Man paralysed in (Loyalist) gun attack hit with £30k care bill – pension call for Troubles victims


‘Cross-border element’ to Irish gangland feud

Dublin feud: Timeline of ‘gangland’ murders


PSNI quiz councillor over Ian Paisley petition complaint


Narrow Water wreaths attacked for the second time in weeks

Memorial to murdered soldiers vandalised again

“This the bitter hatred that the Protestant would encounter in a United Ireland. It is little wonder that the idea does not meet with the approval of the majority!!”


Russia’s GRU ‘targeted chemical weapons watchdog OPCW’

Netherlands foils Russian cyber attack on chemical weapons watchdog

Russian hackers ‘targeted chemical weapons experts investigating Salisbury attack’

Putin’s army of 80,000 spies EXPOSED as four Russian agents caught hacking novichok probe

“What can one expect from a regime established through the murder of millions of its own people!!!!”


Search for ‘Disappeared’ teenager Columba McVeigh ‘one of most challenging’

“Sinn Fein/IRA, like Russia, has built its little ‘empire’ on the blood of those it murdered, often their own co-religionists!”


Somme tragedy – biggest loss of lives in a single day of fighting


Alliance’s Sorcha Eastwood launches libel action action against DUP’s Graham Craig over ‘IRA mouthpiece’ tweet


Gregory Campbell: Working-class Protestants feared what civil rights movement would become

Civil Rights anniversary: Sinn Fein trying to hijack history, says Eamonn McCann