Page 20 - Patrick Mayhew News Today

John Major blocked Irish famine event over apology A typical rural Irish house in the 19th century Éamon Phoenix Former British Prime Minister John Major. Picture by Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire Proposals to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine with an ecumenical service in Liverpool to coincide with President Mary Robinson’s first visit to the UK were vetoed in 1996 by Prime Minister John Major. Newly-released files show the service had been mooted for...

BBC News By Dr Éamon Phoenix image captionViolence erupted in 1996 between the police and thousands of loyalists at Drumcree Parish Church Difficulties facing the incoming Labour Government of Tony Blair on the issue of contentious parades feature in previously confidential government files just published. On 29 April, 1997, a senior NI Office official produced a file for the new Labour NI secretary, Dr Mo Mowlam. Stephen Leach noted that Labour was committed to establishing a parades commissi...

Submitting... Cllr Hutchison stood against Nicola Sturgeon in Glasgow Southside at the last Holyrood elections in 2016 and was Tory candidate in Edinburgh West at last year’s general election. Mr Campbell Bannerman, a distant relative of the Liberal prime minister Henry Campbell Bannerman who won a landslide against the Tories in 1906, studied politics and economics at Edinburgh University and works in public relations. He was a Tory councillor in the south of England, a special adviser to No...

Former US president Bill Clinton has said one of his greatest honours in life has been his role in creating peace in Northern Ireland in a new video. Mr Clinton marked 25 years since a visit to Londonderry in a video message to the people in the city, in which he also said Peace Laureate John Hume, who passed away in August, will be looking down on them. The uplifting video is the latest in a number organised by the Rath Mor Centre in Creggan to boost the morale of the people of Derry who are n...

he added later that he was sent and admired some of the news practices of the murdoch press, the wreck made his influence as a businessman. john major served as the british prime minister from 1890 to 1997. >> password mayawati tied it shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> your phone or. >> john major. >> you provide us with two statements be the first the 14th of may, each of the statements are true. the evidence carefully tendering touring choir. >> is one...