Shame on Robinson besmirching Remembrance Day to receive ‘Peace Award’ with IRA commander – Allister
14 October 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“There is something particularly obscene about IRA Commander, Martin McGuinness, receiving a ‘Peace Award’ on Remembrance Day, 11th November. Equally, it is distasteful and highly insensitive of Peter Robinson to be his joint recipient of the award on that particular date.
“Remembrance Day is a very special day for all IRA victims, not least because of the appalling unsolved IRA massacre in Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday, an event which many believe McGuinness sanctioned through his pivotal role in the IRA.
“Thus, to see Peter Robinson sanitise McGuinness as a paragon of peace on Remembrance Day, of all days, is frankly disgusting. I call on Mr Robinson to withdraw from this unseemly joint escapade to
“McGuinness wouldn’t stand with Robinson at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, but Robinson will stand shoulder to shoulder with McGuinness in Dublin to hear the man he once termed ‘The Bogside Butcher’ acclaimed a messiah of peace. How have the mighty fallen! In this episode we get a distilled snapshot of the DUP’s abandonment of both principle and conscience.
“I also note that tickets to this ignoble event cost €200! Is that what 30 pieces of silver now amounts to?”
Notes to Editors:
1. The Glencree Peace Award will be jointly presented in person to Robinson and McGuinness at a gala dinner in
2. The event has been specially re-arranged to 11th November to suit McGuinness and Robinson, so Peter Robinson had a hand in choosing this sensitive date as the occasion when he would join McGuinness to receive this untimely and inappropriate accolade.
3. Tickets cost €200 each – far more than what most IRA victims get in disability allowance!
