Ireland’s great weakness is Sinn Féin

IT IS little wonder that the British Secretary of State, Owen Patterson, is telling unionists that there is nothing for them to fear in having Martin McGuinness as First Minister.

Why should unionists fear Martin McGuinness when he has won his authority on the same violence that made the British Empire “great”?

It is little wonder either that the Sinn Féin push in the Republic is being fulsomely followed by BBC NI, giving Sinn Féin opportunities to tell their story, when these people know that Ireland’s weakness is Sinn Féin.