Kilkenny burning and Martin Luther King

In his piece last Saturday (Apr 7) Michael Clifford likened the burning of an unoccupied house in Co. Kilkenny to the horrors perpetrated upon Negroes in the Deep South of the US in the Sixties, and to the burning of houses in Catholic neighbourhoods of Belfast during the Troubles.

What planet is he living on? Talk about going over the top. I wonder what Martin Luther King or Gerry Fitt would have made of this analogy.

It seems also that when he went to Kilkenny he didn’t bother to solicit the opinion of any of the residents of the estate in which the family had been living, but this probably would not have suited his agenda.