{"id":693,"date":"2012-05-22T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:26:17","slug":"this-week-in-the-papers-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"This Week in The Papers 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK IN THE PAPERS 6<\/p>\n

I see that the old \u2018Prod Basher\u2019- Hugh Jordan has been his usual self again. Last week in the Sunday World he wrote an article about Paula Bradley, a DUP MLA for North Belfast. Jordan variously describes Bradley as a \u2018curvaceous party girl, a pretty brunette, a curvy DUP babe, a fun-loving politician with a fondness for Jaegermeister shots, part of a loved-up couple, a lovebird etc.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The article\u2019s main story surrounded the new man in Paula Bradley\u2019s life \u2013 Alan Galloway. He mentions Galloway being arrested for a domestic incident \u2013 no conviction – and I was expecting Jordan to flesh out his article with a mention of his old convicted \u2018<\/strong>wife and child beating colleague\u2019 \u2013 John Cassidy. Alas no mention there \u2013 funny that isn\u2019t it. Maybe next week!! Good article this month in the \u2018Purple Standard\u2019 about some Glasgow Celtic\u2019s supporters bringing imitation firearms to the last Rangers\/Celtic game \u2013 hope they were imitations! There is photographic evidence to back the story up. We are waiting for Hugh to do a story about that as well. Just on Celtic. Dermot Desmond, chief shareholder at Celtic wrote to the Irish Independent complaining about an article Chris Lowry had wrote in which he told Celtic fans to \u2018stop gloating, because without Rangers to hate they\u2019d be lost\u2019. What is wrong with what Lowry wrote Desmond? Celtic fans are gloating! They hate Rangers FC and their fans! And who would be their nemesis if Rangers folded \u2013 \u2018The Accies\u2019? Chill out Dessie \u2013 the rivalry is the main reason you bought into the club.<\/p>\n

Last week also,Jordan\u2019s colleague, Richard Sullivan, commenting on the James McClean story, called McClean a \u2018fine ambassador for his homeland\u2019. This week Sullivan wrote about McClean visiting a convicted killer \u2013 Sean Cruickshank and being singled out by a prison \u2018sniffer\u2019 dog who fingered McClean for a drugs search! Obviously this \u2018fine ambassador\u2019 would have nothing to do with drugs. The only conclusion we can draw is that the dog is a Michael O\u2019Neill fan or else it\u2019s another case of collusion!<\/p>\n

I saw a picture of Ciaran Barnes in the Sunday Life posing inMauritius. He is reporting on the Michaela McAreavey murder case \u2013 it\u2019s a hard life for this award-winning journalist. Recently he received a CIPR Media\u00a0 award for his work,(all the winners had to pay to attend the event!) \u2013 but, I couldn\u2019t help be reminded about the disgusting piece of Journalism he was involved in with Alison Morris. They contrived to publish an interview with Delours Price \u2013 whilst she was receiving intense treatment for a mental condition. Morris was asked by Price family members to leave the house in which the interview was taking place and she refused \u2013 breaking a fundamental rule of Journalism. Realising she couldn\u2019t publish the piece, she gave it to Barnes who wrote the article as if he had heard the \u2018Boston College\u2019 interview Price had agreed to. This played a very big part in the decision by the PSNI to submit a subpoena to seek the tapes off Boston College. Despicable. Mark McGregor in his \u2018blog\u2019 this week described Barnes as a \u2018trophy cop\u2019 \u2013 quite fitting I think.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pitbull\u2019 TUV leader, Jim Allister got his \u2018cacks\u2019 in a twist this week over a trip to Israel by ex-combatants. The theme of the trip was \u2018Conflict Resolution\u2019 and it seems quite obvious to me that ex-combatants are best placed to talk about this. Hard to see what \u2018wee Jim\u2019s\u2019 problem is \u2013 good sound-bite though and he does need as much publicity as he can get.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all involved in the \u2018Balmoral Review\u2019 commemorative parade through Belfast. A massive turn-out accompanied best behaviour and all those involved in the organising should be applauded. We are wondering if Jackie McDonald was at Short Strand taking the UDA \u2018salute\u2019? Sorry, as Jackie said this week \u2013 \u2018there are no paramilitaries anymore\u2019.<\/p>\n

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