DUP’s long history of flirting with violence

COMMENTING on DUP criticism of the proposed Northern Assembly link between the UUP and David Ervine’s PUP, Peter Molloy (Irish Examiner letters, May 19) reminds us of the actions of DUP leader Ian Paisley in assembling 500 men in military formation holding aloft gun licences in 1981. He also reminds us of the actions of DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson in 1986 when he led an incursion into Clontibret in a sinister manoeuvre intended to expose the vulnerability of border communities.

If Mr Molloy had engaged in a cursory Google on Ulster Resistance, he would have read of the hypocrisy and double standards of the DUP. In November 1986, Paisley, Robinson and Ivan Foster founded Ulster Resistance whose aim was to end the Anglo-Irish Agreement.