{"id":662,"date":"2012-05-14T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:51:48","slug":"662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"This week in the papers 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever started reading something and, after a couple of paragraphs, wondered if it was a wind-up? Happened this week to me.\u00a0 Anthony McIntyre\u2019s site \u2013 The Pensive Quill, posted a contribution from a group called \u2013 I\u2019m not making this up \u2013 \u2018No Royal Beacons at McArts Fort Cavehill Campaign Group\u2019<\/strong>. (What a mouthful).<\/p>\n

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They have got themselves into a tizzy over Belfast City Council plans to light a beacon on the Cavehill as part of the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They claim the site is \u2018intrinsically linked to the history and development of the struggle for Irish freedom<\/strong>\u2026.\u2019 and these plans are \u2018an insult to Republicanism<\/strong>\u2019. They are calling for protests to resist these moves. I\u2019m sure Theobold Wolfe Tone would be proud of their attempt, in his name, to prohibit a demonstration of Protestant culture. I think the real targets are SF and the DUP and their attempt, albeit fractured, to bring people together rather than divide them.<\/p>\n

Also, McIntyre posted an article about Marian Price\u2019s continued imprisonment following the dropping of charges against her and two others this week \u2013 the Judge was Barney McElholm (remember him from my post last week). To be fair to McIntyre it was a good post and highlighted an old trick used quite considerably in the 70\u2019s to keep combatants of the streets \u2013 charge them and delay the trial as long as possible. Both sides suffered this abuse Anthony but you didn\u2019t mention that. The problem with the post was that one of his regular respondents advocated the throwing of Nail Bombs at the PSNI \u2013 and this was allowed to stay. Somewhat surprised at that.<\/p>\n

Speaking of morons posting on the Net. Martin McGuiness was quick to jump to the defence of James McClean after the young footballer decided to play for the Republic of Ireland instead of Northern Ireland. McClean was targeted by morons following his decision and forced to close his Twitter account. His comment that \u2018Catholics don\u2019t feel comfortable playing forNorthern Ireland<\/strong>\u2019 probably didn\u2019t help the situation \u2013 but is it true and if so how does he know? Has he spoken to them all? Gerry Armstrong, Martin O\u2019Neill and a host of others have never said this. I think McClean\u2019s real reason is he wants to play for a better team and hopes to get to the major Championships which have eludedNorthern Ireland. Later on in the week, Miriam O\u2019Callaghan, RTE, admitted that she had suffered threats and intimidation on Twitter following an argument she had with McGuiness during the Irish Presidential Election. The difference in coverage of these stories has been incredible. I wonder why that is? Finally on this \u2013 Both the Sunday World and the Sunday Life this week go down the \u2018moronic\u2019 Twitter postings road \u2013 but if you want a more balanced piece of reporting go to Newton Emerson\u2019s article in this weeks Sunday Times.<\/p>\n

Could someone explain to me the point of Jenny Curran? Every week sees a story in the Sunday World surrounding this young woman \u2013 from \u2018glass-walking\u2019 to \u2018keep fit\u2019 to \u2018circus gymnastics\u2019 and so on. There is no doubt that she an attractive, articulate, fun-loving adventurer \u2013 but the truth is that she has led a very privileged life, financially supported by her Dad \u2013 Ed Curran, the Editor of the Belfast Telegraph. There are a lot of people, families and communities struggling today and this demonstration of \u2018I\u2019m having a fun time \u2013 supported by Mummy and Daddy\u2019 behaviour gets a bit hard to accept. Jenny, go and work in communities that need help and try and keep your face out of the papers \u2013 bet you can\u2019t!!!<\/p>\n

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