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Nigel, bad blood and bad Shinners

In yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph (well, the online version I have is dated February 25), Nigel Dodds is making two things clear: there is ‘bad blood’ between the DUP and Sinn Féin, and it’s all Sinn Féin’s fault. After you’ve picked yourself off the floor, to which you collapsed on hearing that Nigel is blaming Sinn […]

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Victims and justice and the price you pay

On the face of it, I can sympathise with Kenny Donaldson and others like him. He represents a group  ‘Innocent Victims United’ and he was on The View  last night. With him was Alan Brecknell whose father was killed in 1975  by the UVF. Donaldson’s line is that it’s absurd to equate the victim of […]

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