Tall person: Shocking business, this whole commemoration thing.
Small person: I couldn’t agree more.
Tall person: Have you a view yourself on this notion of commemorating the RIC and the DUP?
Small person: I have.
Tall person: Which is?
Small person: I personally will never forget Nigel Dodds.
Tall person: Did I say DUP? I meant DMP – Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Small person: Ah. That’s different.
Tall person: Will I tell you my own view?
Small person: You probably will.
Tall person: We should all remember that the men in the RIC and the DMP had wives and mothers and fathers and children. They were human beings.
Small person: I couldn’t agree more. Like the followers of Pol Pot.
Tall person: EH?
Small person: The followers of Pol Pot would have had wives and children and fathers and mothers too, I’d say. Wouldn’t you?
Tall person: Um, yes.
Small person: So maybe it’d be better to not mistake the irrelevant for the political facts.
Tall person: Speaking of the DUP, I heard its possible new leader on RTÉ this morning. He was lamenting that people in the south couldn’t be inclusive in their respect and commemoration of former enemies.
Small person: How wise of Sir Jeffrey.
Tall person: I see my bus is coming. Have you anything further to add?
Small person: Perhaps that this is the first Irish government which had to deny it was planning to throw a party for the Black and Tans.
Tall person: But those were wild days. There’s a letter in the Irish Times this morning describing how an innocent mother was deliberately shot and killed by the RIC. Thank God we’ve left those days 100 years behind. Do you want to make a concluding remark before boarding this Glider?
Small person: Other than that I believe members of the DUP are planning to attend a commemoration on the first of March in West Belfast.
Tall person: Really? In commemoration of what IRA atrocity?
Small person: No. They’ll commemorate the starting of his hunger strike thirty-nine years ago by Bobby Sands. Slán.
Tall person: I always knew the DUP believed in reconciliation and inclusiveness. But I’m disappointed (shouts as Glider moves away) IN THE WAY YOU’VE WEAPONISED THE IRISH LANGUAGE, YOU LITTLE SCUT.
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