IN the aftermath of the local and European elections, it seems that the electorate didn’t believe Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s unsubstantiated allegations against Sinn Féin.

AS someone who lived in the North of Ireland in the late ’60s and ’70s I find disturbing the similarity between Belfast then and Basra now.

IT IS little wonder that the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974 were known by relatives of the 34 dead and 250 injured as the Forgotten Massacre.

AS A supporter of the Good Friday Agreement and the maximum nationalist unity needed to build upon it, I am extremely disappointed at the SDLP’s recent silly attack on Martin McGuinness, which descended to the level of British right-wing, trashy, Tory tabloids.

THE renewed PSNI ‘investigation’ into the murder of Cllr Patsy Kelly 29 years ago is an implicit admission that a proper inquiry was never carried out by the RUC.