Archivo etiqueta «Irlanda del Norte»
By Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin (THE GUARDIAN, 06/02/10):
It was another “Good Friday” in the peace process yesterday. Hillsborough Castle was the setting for the final piece of the jigsaw of devolution which saw agreement between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist party on the transfer of policing and justice powers and other outstanding matters arising from the Good Friday and St Andrews agreements.
Many had thought it wouldn’t, couldn’t happen. That our respective positions were too far apart. But it did, and it was achieved primarily as a result of very intense discussions between Sinn Féin and… Seguir leyendo
By Denis Murray, a former BBC Ireland correspondent (THE GUARDIAN, 27/01/10):
Well, golly. Northern Ireland’s politicians can’t agree. Forget Groundhog Day – we’ve already had our deja vu. And when they can’t agree, in fly the British and Irish prime ministers to try to sort things out. And after hours and hours of talks – no deal.
The stakes for this couldn’t be higher. Even after all-night talks, Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen had to fess up to no deal. The body language of the two leaders and their facial expressions kind of said: what on earth are we going… Seguir leyendo
By Mick Fealty, the founder of the Slugger O’Toole political blog (THE TIMES, 12/01/10):
If you offered an account of the past five days as a piece of a fiction to a publisher he would throw it back in your face and tell you that it was too unbelievable for anyone to buy.
Actually the real crisis this week at Stormont had little to do with the salacious details of Peter and Iris Robinson’s private lives. It relates to a much more plausible, elemental power play of “who eats whom”.
Yesterday brought to a close, for now at least, the… Seguir leyendo
By Lord Bew, an independent cross-bench peer and professor of Irish politics at Queen’s University, Belfast (THE TIMES, 11/01/10):
The crisis of Peter and Iris Robinson, falling hard upon the heels of the fall of the House of Paisley, may well mark the end of dynasty politics in Northern Ireland. But its significance is far greater than that. The First Minister, Peter Robinson was the British and Irish governments’ best hope to achieve delivery of the final critical stage in the peace process — the devolution of policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland.
Wounded as he now is, even… Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas Llosa © Derechos mundiales de prensa en todas las lenguas reservados a Ediciones EL PAÍS, SL, 2009 (EL PAÍS, 04/10/09):
El castillo de Galgorm, en Ballymena, en el condado de Antrim (Irlanda del Norte) fue construido en la primera mitad del siglo XVII por el doctor Alexander Colville, un doctor no en medicina sino en “divinidades”, es decir teología, a quien, como se hizo rico de la noche a la mañana, sus contemporáneos sospechaban de haber hecho pacto con el diablo y practicar las artes mágicas. Un retrato suyo orna todavía la entrada del castillo y el… Seguir leyendo
By Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin, member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland for West Belfast and abstentionist MP for West Belfast at Westminster (THE GUARDIAN, 15/07/09):
The single most important issue facing the people of Ireland and Britain is the achievement of Irish unity and the construction of a new relationship between Ireland and Britain based on equality.
Economic crises, however severe, will come and go. Governments will come and go, but for more centuries than any of us care to contemplate Britain’s involvement in Ireland has been the source of conflict; partition, discord and division; and… Seguir leyendo
Por Irene Boada, periodista y filóloga (EL PERIÓDICO, 11/04/09):
Pocos días después de los asesinatos en el Ulster, los irlandeses hacían algo que saben hacer muy bien y que es muy sano: reírse de sí mismos. En la Opera House de Belfast se representaba The history of the troubles, accodin’ to my Da (La historia de los conflictos, según mi padre), de Martin Lynch, un autor local, en la que se ironiza sobre la parte más sórdida de los seres humanos al más puro estilo de Sean O’Casey o de tantos otros dramaturgos irlandeses. La obra, que ha agotado entradas… Seguir leyendo
By David Park, the author of The Truth Commissioner and Oranges From Spain (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/03/09):
In Northern Ireland the squalid and brutal murders of two unarmed, off-duty soldiers taking delivery of pizzas, followed by the execution of a police officer who was responding to a call for help, achieved what all acts of terrorism intend — the release into the body politic of the poisonous spores of fear.
In this case, the fear was all the more potent because it infected the psyche of all those who had lived through the Troubles, regenerating the memories of the… Seguir leyendo
By Liam Clarke (THE TIMES, 15/03/09):
I wonder if Gerry Adams, the Sinn Finn leader, remembered his old adversary Margaret Thatcher as he stood in Government Buildings in Dublin last week and said that dissident republicans “shouldn’t have room to breathe”? He liked the image so much, he repeated it in a press statement. “It is crucial that there is no breathing space given to these unrepresentative groups and that there is no sense of ambiguity about our collective opposition to their actions.”
It was a remarkable echo of the Iron Lady’s call for the Provisional IRA to be denied… Seguir leyendo
By Kevin Toolis, the author of Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul (THE TIMES, 11/03/09):
It is Easter Day – the most sacred day in the Irish Republican calendar.
In the drizzling rain last year the Provisional movement is assembling to march through the tawdry streets of West Belfast to celebrate the 1916 Easter Rising and Pádraig Pearse, the IRA’s bloodthirsty founder.
The flute bands strike up, the drummers roll and the procession slowly snakes its way forward. But something is wrong. Under the orders of Gerry Adams the marchers are not allowed to unfurl their banners – which… Seguir leyendo
Por Rafael Leonisio, investigador del departamento de Ciencia Política de la UPV-EHU (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 10/03/09):
Ya han transcurrido casi 15 años desde el inicio del proceso de paz en Irlanda del Norte. Son muchas las cosas que han pasado desde entonces: rupturas de treguas, escisiones en grupos terroristas, atentados brutales o el paso al crimen organizado de antiguas bandas terroristas. El 3 de septiembre de 2008 la Comisión de Supervisión Independiente (IMC), organización creada en 2004 por los gobiernos británico e irlandés para supervisar el desarme de los grupos paramilitares norirlandeses, emitió su decimonoveno informe. En él afirmó que… Seguir leyendo
By David Aaronovitch (THE TIMES, 10/03/09):
Don’t we know, for we are told it often enough, that however unjustified terrorism is, it springs from real social and political conditions? That this is the sequence: from the feeling of grievance, through a growing belief in the need for violence, finally to the subsequent act of terror? From this it follows, solve the grievance somehow – through concessions or talks or even military measures – and the terror will stop. There will be no reason for it.
Let us presume that it was indeed the Real IRA, as claimed to the Sunday… Seguir leyendo
By Lord Bew, an independent crossbench peer and Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast (THE TIMES, 09/03/09):
This is a moment to hold one’s breath. The last murderous barracks assault on British soldiers in Northern Ireland took place a dozen years ago at Thiepval. Then it was not unexpected; this time the assault has a terrible quality of nightmarish unreality. But the Northern Ireland peace process has proved surprisingly durable. It even survived the mass slaughter at Omagh in 1998. The key now is the response of the Sinn Féin leadership.
Thus far that leadership has felt able… Seguir leyendo
Por Rogelio Alonso, profesor de Ciencia Política (ABC, 10/04/08):
El 10 de abril de 1998 los medios de comunicación abrieron sus informativos con el anuncio de un histórico acuerdo de «paz» para Irlanda del Norte. En estos diez años los principales grupos terroristas norirlandeses han abandonado sus campañas de violencia, acometiendo el sistema político importantes cambios bajo los que, no obstante, subyacen graves carencias. Oportuno resulta destacarlo cuando el modelo norirlandés continúa utilizándose en España como referente, asumiéndose desde algunos sectores que el hipotético final exitoso de dicho proceso obliga a iniciativas semejantes en relación con ETA. En tan significativo… Seguir leyendo
By Glenn Patterson, the author of Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times, which will be published in September (THE GUARDIAN, 09/04/08):
The recent assertion by Gerry Adams that Ian Paisley “radicalised a generation of young people” like himself might have raised eyebrows elsewhere, but in Northern Ireland – which tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement – it was another example of a remarkable consensus emerging between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist party: a consensus about the past, not the future. After decades disputing whose voters were more deserving of the title Most Oppressed… Seguir leyendo