In the vivid if somewhat coarse wording of The Thick of It’s script-writers, this has been a cluster-fuck of a Twelfth for unionism. First there was the bouncy-bouncy dance of the Finaghy True Blues in Donegall Street, then the alleged murder attempt on the life of a young woman by car-driver and Orangeman John […]
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Burning the evidence
Last year around this time an effigy of Gerry Adams was hung from a bonfire. Mr Adams, I believe, asked his solicitor to report the incident to the PSNI on the grounds that it was a hate crime. Odd – I don’t remember anyone being prosecuted for that over the last twelve months. Do you? […]