Letter: Draw a line under the past? Just one major problem ... Sinn Fein simply don’t want to do so
A letter from Jack Irwin:
There’s a big problem with George Millar’s very sensible idea of us here in Northern Ireland ‘drawing a line in the sand’ in relation to the past and moving forward (Not too late for politicians to heed Bertie Ahern's advice, Letters, April 14 – to read the letter, click here) and that is, of course, that Sinn Fein simply don’t want to do so!
A major part of their strategy is to continually refer to the past, blame everyone but themselves, and to rewrite the whole history, particularly of the last “Troubles” here.
They also latch on to issues which most people in the province have absolutely no interest in, such as, for example, the renaming of addresses in Irish.
None of this should come as any surprise because the whole Belfast Agreement was based on appeasing republicans and nationalists and promoting Tony Blair as the “man who resolved the Irish problem” – which, of course, he didn’t.
Jack Irwin, Bangor