DUP concern over Sinn Fein is late in the day

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is, albeit rather late in the day, clearly concerned about Sinn Féin’s energy for their radical republican agenda (March 19).

It has been the DUP leadership who over the years — and no later than this last week — have spoken in favour of granting a place (as of right) at the top of government in Northern Ireland. If Sir Jeffrey’s party had been as enthusiastic about unionism as Michelle O’Neill’s is about republicanism, our place within the UK would not be under threat as it is today.

In his Saturday speech, Sir Jeffrey revealed the DUP catchphrase for the imminent election—- Moving Forward Together. The problem for unionists has been and now is that ‘together’ has invariably meant including Sinn Fein as though they have Northern Ireland’s interests at heart and are in some perverse way democratic.

Cliff Cardwell, Co Londonderry

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