Trimble under threat once again

Today will see another one of those “defining moments” in the interminable series in Northern Ireland as a consequence of unionist internecine warfare.

Once again, the leadership of Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble is under threat from the anti-Good Friday Agreement elements.

Once again, the Ulster Unionist Council seeks to dictate the future shape of the North with its insistence to tamper with the joint declaration produced by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a way forward for the peace process.