Has the busy Ballymena DUP councillor, Orangeman and former rugby
international, Davy Tweed, taken on yet another onerous
responsibility? Is he now a press officer for the LVF?
After a recent council meeting Davy distributed a statement from
the Loyalist death squad to assembled journalists.
The statement read: ``This is a statement from the Ballymena LVF.
We would like you to print a warning to all of the main players
involved in the drugs trade in and around Ballymena. We state
they have SEVEN DAYS to pack up their illegal trade.'' The
document went on to attack the gang's former associates, ``we sat
back and watched and waited to see if `our local heroes in the
UVF' would sort out this problem but as everyone knows, it's hard
to clean muck off other people's doorsteps if your own is mucky.''
Big Davy hasn't been forthcoming about how the statement came to
be in his hands. His party colleague, Ian Paisley Jnr, has
recently accused the PUP of being ``guilty by association'' of the
soaring drug problem in the town. Bad times in Ballymena.
The Good Friday Agreement may herald good news for an old age
pensioner in Manchester who is charged with attempting to pass a
Bank of Ireland banknote when he tried to buy a British lottery
ticket. He has asked that if he is convicted he wants to serve
his sentence in Long Kesh.
Jim Arnison, former northern correspondent of the Morning Star
newspaper, was arrested after a Manchester newsagent alerted the
police.
Arnison, it was alleged, attempted to buy the tickets using a
banknote carrying a picture of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
The newsagent ``became suspicious'' reported the Manchester Evening
News with all gravity.
In a statement Mr Arnison said that in the event of his being
convicted he would request that any sentence he may receive be
served in the Six Counties, as ``I understand that there are soon
to be vacancies at Long Kesh''.
The DUP on Strabane council are praying that those who have
suggested that the council meets in a local convent while their
offices on the Derry Road are being refurbished this summer will
repent.
The fact that the number of nuns in the nunnery is.....None, has
done nothing to alleviate their concerns. Ulster still says No to
Nunnery (as well as Popery).
The Convent of Mercy, a 130 year old historic property at
Newtownkennedy, was recently sold to a consortium of local
businessmen who are seeking to sell or lease it for use by the
local community.
DUP councillor Allan Bresland alleged that he had no religious
objections to the use of the site but was concerned for his
safety. ``I would be reluctant to go there.'' he said.
We always take encouragement from hearing that our enemies are
avid readers of our paper. From Ian Paisley to Bob McCartney to
Ruth Dudley Edwards, they all include us among their favourite
reading. But none can be as enthusiastic as anti-republican
academic Henry Patterson who, we learn, waits impatiently each
week to read the paper on the Internet. Hope you enjoy it, Henry.
How times change. After Sinn FŽin Dublin North East
representative Larry O'Toole was shot by a drug dealer at a Holy
Communion ceremony last Saturday the News of the World headline
was Drug War Hero Shot In Church. Not so long ago it would have
been something like: Children Cheat Death in Provo Drug War
Shooting.
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