Governments must act now to end loyalist attacks on Catholics

THE greater emphasis of the media and Government remains on the IRA while crime, evictions and blatant acts of sectarianism are carried out by loyalist paramilitaries under the benign eyes of British securicrats and the PSNI in the North.

The siege conditions many Catholic families have lived under for several months in north Antrim and parts of Belfast have got limited coverage in the media in the South.

There is a growing perception that the decommissioned IRA is now a greater threat to our Government and the economic interests of those who own our media than when they had a gun in one hand and ballot paper in the other.