Time for all parties to break their Sinn Fein links
08 January 2009
Commenting on the decision of SDLP councillor Matthew McDermott to pull out of a Sinn Fein youth event at the weekend Jim Allister stated:
“I welcome the decision of Matthew McDermott to pull out of a discussion panel which was to feature as part of the Sinn Fein’s trip to South Down at the weekend. All decent people will be disgusted by the ghoulish exercise of visiting the IRA’s mass murder scene of Narrow Water, Warrenpoint.
“The attack at Narrow Water was one of the most infamous of the Troubles. The manner in which the IRA detonated a second device to kill and injure those treating their dying and wounded colleagues was particularly vicious.
“The fact that Sinn Fein could organize a trip to gloat over this event is yet further evidence of their continuing unfitness for government. They manifestly remain wedded to terrorism and celebrating their bloody past, both of which are incompatible with democracy.
“All the fine words of Jim Wells in condemning the Sinn Fein event are so much hot air as long as the DUP continue to prop up Sinn Fein in government. I urge all Unionists to break their unholy alliance with this wicked organisation.”
