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No Guns, No Cash via ElBlogador.com- The Voice of Irish Nationalism June 3rd, 2007 at 11:52

Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie has told the UDA that if it doesn't decommission its arsenel of terror, the (frankly ridiculous) government funding it receives will be cut.Damn right.For too long direct rule dictators with no notion of the reality of the situation in the north handed out cash left, right and centre to barely-reconstructed terrorists.Ms. Ritchie said: "If this funding is to continue, then the UDA have to decommission their arsenal."An intergral part of the transformation initiative is decommissioning."I have already communicated that message to them and I, as the minister, demand that they do that. The public demands that they do that."If the UDA refuses to decommission then, to coin a phrase, the continuation of government funding shouldn't even be on the...

SDLP Announces Chairs and Vice-Chair For Stormont via ElBlogador.com- The Voice of Irish Nationalism April 18th, 2007 at 11:41

The SDLP has announced its nominees for the top committee jobs to which it is entitled in the forthcoming assembly. They are:Enterprise, Trade and Investment Chair: Mark DurkanEnvironment Chair: Patsy McGloneEducation Vice-Chair: Dominic BradleyThis is in addition to the position of Social Development Minister, for which South Down MLA Margaret Ritchie has been...