He never defines what he means by trust and when he uses inverted commas ('trust') as in this extract:

"This explains how Irish nationalism did such a good job of creating a separate Catholic national identity in the 19th Century. This excluded Protestants from comprehending them and so being able to 'trust' them."
What exactly does he mean?

The abstraction, trust, like beauty or justice has many nuanced meanings when defined by context.

I trust my council employee to empty my bin; I trust you're in good health; Macbeth's King Duncan: "He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust" or as the Ancient Greeks used to say: "Trust, once gone like the departed soul, never returns."

We try to make sense of the world by using category labels, eg: Protestant/Catholic; unionist/nationalist, indigenous/colonist, left-wing/right-wing. These generalisations contain many sub-sets and political expression can be determined by proportional representation.

If there are constant universal principles in conflict resolution, then Dingley can compare Northern Ireland to South Ossetia but if he cannot prove that there are, then his opinions have little worth.

He contrasts Protestant pragmatism and scientific industrialisation with Catholic mysticism, based on scholastic philosophy and de Valera's romanticised oul bog road where comely colleens the 'primrose path of dalliance tread' to cavort at crossroads where yellow-flecked whins kiss the ground.

There is nothing mystical about today's Irish Celtic Tiger economy.
I conclude by quoting another of Dingley's nuggets of nonsense:
"Meanwhile, once any group is formed, it creates its own way of doing and thinking about things, which inevitably exclude people who are not part of the group."

What does he mean by "things"?

Perhaps they ain't what they used to be.

Mind the group, mind the gap.

George McNally,
Londonderry