There are five things that I would dearly love to see happen. At the same time, if they did happen, I’d probably die from shock on the spot.
1. I’d like to see a ban on journalists asking nationalist politicians if they’re prepared to apologise for IRA actions during the Troubles. This makes as much sense as asking a German, in the 1970s, whether he/she would apologise for the actions of German pilots on bombing missions during WW2. Or asking English people in the 1970s to apologise for the actions of RAF pilots on bombing missions during WW2. In many instances these people were very young or not even born at the time of the hostilties. Besides, how can you with a straight face apologise for something you haven’t done?
2. Assuming that journalists insist on pursuing this daft course mentioned above, they should be compelled on the grounds of balance to ask unionist politicians today to apologise for the decades of gerrymander, discrimination and injustice carried out by the unionist state of NEI. for some fifty years.You’re quite right, Virginia: such apologies wouldn’t begin to make any more sense than demands for apologies for actions by the IRA.
3. To establish that unionist politicians are keen to move on from the violent past, they should be asked if they approve of annual sectarian marches and the playing of Orange tunes by marching bands. In fact, they should be asked if they think an unapologetically anti-Catholic organisation contributes to the healing of division between all our people.
4. Gavin Robinson should be asked if he has visited or been in touch with his former party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. If he still has not, he should be asked how this squares with the notion of innocent until proven guilty. And regardless of guilt or innocence, how this not-with-a-bargepole approach squares with the Christianity which the honourable member for East Belfast presumably professes.
5. While strapped to a lie-detector, all those who were MPs before the recent general election and who remain MPs today should be asked, on a scale of 1-10, how much they’ll miss the former honourable member for North Antrim.
Ask themuns if they will apologise for the Belfast Pogroms and RUC luring kiddies to a playground and killing them with grenades.
if events of 55 years ago are relevant now, then so were events from less than 50 years before that back in the late 1960s / early ’70s…
ASK the PULP
{Protestant
Unionist
Loyalist
Politicians}
have they ever secretly met with Murderous Loyalist Terrorist?
Unionist politics is intertwined with Loyalis paramilitaries – although there’s always a denial. However, nobody can deny the Rev McCrea shared a platform with Billy Wright.
Weaver Street massacre 1922:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/why-don-t-we-remember-the-weaver-street-massacre-in-belfast-1.4797959
Apologies for referencing the “newspaper of record”.
Occasionally they will print the facts, which the FF-FG establishment prefer buried. But it might be 100 years later.
Have you visited Jeffrey Donaldson, Jude
I don’t think there is any chance of Mark Carruthers or Paul Clarke ever asking unionists those questions. They sing from the Ben Lowry hymn sheet. IRA killed everybody.
I noticed journos asking Pat Cullen if she condemned the Enniskillen bombing during the week of the 30th Anniversary of the Loughinisland murders.