Moderate unionists driven out by bigots

By Brian Feeney (for Irish News)

Last Friday night loyalist thugs broke into a house in Ballygomartin in west Belfast and attacked a 22-year-old man with iron bars and a hatchet. He had the temerity to think that he, a Catholic, could live with a Protestant woman in a Protestant district. The incident is one of an endless litany.

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