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Northern Irish Secretary Owen Paterson says no demand for border poll (IrishCentral)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:27:21 PDT

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

Northern Irish Secretary of State Owen Paterson was in Washington, D.C. and New York City last month for a series of high-level meetings with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Owen Patterson- a different kind of Northern Ireland secretary (IrishCentral)

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:00:24 PDT

Owen PatersonOwen Paterson recently took part in a 1,000-mile horse race across MongoliaIt is hardly the resume item you would expect to see on a Northern Ireland secretary’s bio, but Paterson, 55, is hardly the conventional type of politicianHe rarely beats about the bush even when on the defensive, which his government was last month after it announced that it would not hold a new public inquiry into the Pat Finucane murder back in 1989Finucane’s widow Geraldine essentially stormed out after British Prime Minister David Cameron said no to the public inquiry into a murder for which the order, many believe, came from the very top of the British government back in 1989 READ MORE

NI Secretary Owen Paterson wants Bloody Sunday Report published soon (IrishCentral)

Thu, 13 May 2010 11:10:24 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

New Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Paterson, has asked that the Bloody Sunday Report to be published as soon as possible.

Owen Paterson to be new Northern Ireland secretary (IrishCentral)

Wed, 12 May 2010 12:10:52 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Conservative MP, Owen Patterson will be Northern Ireland’s new secretary.