editorial

And fools rush in……

And fools rush in……

And so, yet another 'agreement' has been brokered in the North. Can anyone remember which one this is, or even care. It won't last because with the announcement only hours old, the dinosaurs are already at loggerheads.

Robinson refuses to even make eye contact with his deputy minister, McGuiness, let alone shake his hand. Ominous sign. The Ulster Unionists Party would not come out for the photo call. For any politician to refuse an international photo call is truly a omen of impending doom.

The appointment of a Justice Minister within two months is certain to cause angst, the DUP/UUP alliance will not support a republican, not even an SDLP member. The whole ’hen-house’ will no doubt collapse like a house of cards soon. Who will really care. South of the border, more people switch TV and radio channels as soon as the total incompetence of northern politics is mentioned, long may it continue. However on the plus side, it keeps a good Sligo media man in gainful employment.

Robinson, since taking over the baton from Paisley, made the fatal mistake of snubbing Gordon Brown and acting like a prima donna at No.10 by still actively portraying his ‘No Surrender’ card.

One does not taunt one’s master, especially when he has over four-hundred MI5 spooks in your backyard, based at Palace Barracks in Holywood. These spooks were extremely busy in plotting Robinson’s downfall by recording and selectively releasing some of the covert trysts of his ‘missus’ and her teen toyboy.

A current investigation into three property deals and significant payments from developers in Newtownards by the Serious Organised Crime Unit of the PSNI is certain to throw up an interesting name. Another result of covert MI5 spook snooping.

There is more to follow if the Robinsons do not ‘get off the stage’ within a specified timeframe. One down, one to go!

The last few weeks of high profile intransigence and belligerency will have been allowed by higher circles as perhaps Peter Roibinson’s swansong. A government eighty-million pound bailout of the Presbyterian Building Society, a tontine set up purely for those of the right-wing Protestant faith which collapsed in mysterious circumstances leaving ten-thousand ‘investors’ out of pocket, will be a nice farewell gift to his devoted, if somewhat misguided fans. They will now be forever indebted to Robinson, or his memory, as their saviour.

On the other side of the coin, Adams will have a lot of questions to answer. The issuing of a European arrest warrant last week for his alleged paedophile brother and the forthcoming trial and publicity is sure to cast a public spotlight on his knowledge and action, or not, on those, at this stage, supposed heinous events spanning a quarter century. According to the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre, Sinn Fein must and will be exposed for harbouring and hiding, in churchlike fashion, their pedo’s, and using Donegal as a dumping ground for their perverted members.

On the home front. There are interesting times ahead for a group of Sligo business investors who are falling out over a property  deal which saw the value of the land around Hazelwood House drop to €2m from their invested €16m. Calls of  ‘a complete fraud’ and ‘secret profits’ by the former EU Commissioner has whetted the media’s appetite in the evolving Commercial Court hearings. No doubt, quantifiable digging into the background of this case, and the site, including environmental aspects, are continuing apace, and bearing fruit!

So what a wonderful start to 2010. Still the Rugby has started. Can’t be all that bad.

Ciaran McCarthy
Managing Editor