Aisling Ghéar Irish Language Theatre Company Challenges NI Arts Council Decision to Withdraw Funding

PRESS RELEASE HARTE COYLE COLLINS SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES AISLING GHÉAR IRISH LANGUAGE THEATRE COMPANY, BELFAST CHALLENGES WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDING BY NORTHERN IRELAND ARTS COUNCIL 26TH MAY 2022  The only Irish language theatre company in the North Aisling Ghéar, based at Cultúrlann Belfast, has today challenged a decision by the Arts Council Northern Ireland to withdraw…

Pat Finucane Centre and JFF Reject Latest British Legacy Proposals – PFC Response to NI Troubles Legacy Bill

London’s latest legacy proposals contain nothing for families bereaved in the conflict. No self-respecting judge, police officer/former police officer or historian should touch them with a barge pole.  Perpetrators can apply for immunity from prosecution behind closed doors without their evidence being tested to substantiate their integrity or truthfulness. London’s latest legacy proposals contain nothing…

CAJ outraged by UK legacy bill

The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has strongly criticised the UK government’s new legacy bill (as introduced into the UK Parliament today) and has called for it to be scrapped in favour of the prior proposals in the Stormont House Agreement. CAJ is highly critical of a number of aspects of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy…