Secret deals betray IRA victims
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and its fellow-travellers are up to their eyes in secret deals in every aspect of the state’s affairs.
The matter of the new stadium is causing profound concern among Northern Ireland football supporters. Getting a stadium at the Maze in Lagan Valley meant they had to acquiesce in the demands of An Coiste, the republican prisoners’ group, for a hunger strike memorial, aka a republican shrine, in the same complex.
The buildings to be retained in this complex have already been listed by the Environment and Heritage Service, giving as reasons their “important penal architecture”. How interesting and how timely!
So our politicians have betrayed the innocent victims yet again for 30 pieces of silver.
They have forgotten about the victims and have surrendered to the demands of republican terrorists — yet another concession to the IRA. They have put their own egos and political ambitions before what is acceptable to the vast majority of people.
Of course, this could not possibly have been secured without another secret deal between them and the NIO.
Is this why they have not put pressure on the Blair government to come clean and to answer the numerous questions put to ministers by Lord Laird concerning the business case for, and site selection of, the Maze?
Does it also explain why they are so keen to get into government with republican terrorists? The are playing politics with the people of Northern Ireland and with victims in particular. Shame on them.
The critics of the ‘secret dealers’ of past years are now involved to the eyeballs in the same tactics today and use the same rhetoric to justify their behaviour.
People want political honesty and integrity from their representatives. Indeed if we had that, things would not be as they are today.
Dr JE Hazlett Lynch
Director
West Tyrone Voice
Moyle Road
Newtownstewart
Co Tyrone
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