James Molyneaux
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IRA 1994 ceasefire: Did London and unionism miss an opportunity?
- Irish News
- August 31, 2019, 06:00
The Provisional IRA called its ceasefire 25 years ago on this date (August 31st, 1994). There might be a memory that after more than 3,000 deaths, of (...)

IRA ceasefire 25 years ago a ‘close call,’ recalls Gerry Adams
- Irish News
- August 29, 2019, 11:00
Persuading the IRA leadership to call its August 31st, 1994 ceasefire was a “close call”, former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has stated when marki(...)

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
- Abroad
- March 16, 2019
What was Father Ted’s money doing? What did Mary Robinson’s electors rock in 1990? And could Lindsay Lohan play soccer for the Republic of Ireland? (...)

Haughey made repeated efforts to meet Molyneaux without success
- Politics
- December 29, 2018, 02:04
Taoiseach Charles Haughey made repeated efforts to set up a meeting with the unionist leader James Molyneaux during 1988 without success. The two mai(...)

1992 in the North: 85 people killed in the Troubles
- Irish News
- January 2, 2018, 00:01
The year 1992 began with an upsurge of IRA and loyalist violence in Northern Ireland. On January 17th, seven Protestant building workers were killed(...)

British concerned over UDR credibility
- Politics
- January 2, 2017, 00:00
The image and activities of the Ulster Defence Regiment proved an increasingly embarrassing issue for the British government in the run-up to and afte(...)

Anglo-Irish Agreement marked a crossing of the Rubicon
- Politics
- November 14, 2015, 06:30
Probably the most memorable footage capturing the visceral depth of unionism’s antagonism to the Anglo-Irish Agreement is of Ian Paisley at Belfast Ci(...)

Agreement left many unionists feeling things were moving away from them
- Politics
- November 14, 2015, 06:28
Now 65, John Doogan was one of those who stood in the throng outside Belfast City Hall 30 years ago, cheering loudly with every other unionist in the (...)

Anglo-Irish Agreement: deal was crushing blow for unionism
- Politics
- November 14, 2015, 06:16
The hall was full. Every chair in the building had been brought in from other rooms, yet there were still dozens of people huddled in the hallway and (...)

Jeffrey Donaldson: Time coming when rift in unionism can mend
- Politics
- April 17, 2015, 01:00
Jeffrey Donaldson reckons the time may be approaching when bitter divisions that separated Ulster Unionists from Democratic Unionists could be officia(...)