“Confirmation that the DUP have corporately rolled over to Republican demands on the Maze will outrage many within the Unionist community, particularly victims of IRA violence.

 

“While Edwin Poots claimed that those opposed to the plan are engaged in nothing but scaremongering it was telling that he did not challenge the assertion made by both Sinn Fein and a former IRA prisoner that Republican inmate of the prison will be able to tell their “story” on site. It is blindingly obvious that the Maze site will become a place of Republican pilgrimage, an IRA Mecca in the heart of an overwhelmingly Unionist constituency.

 

“The boast of IRA prison leader Raymond McCartney has proved to be true: “The listed and retained buildings…will be open to the public. There will be the opportunity for the many stories of the gaol to be told.” Only a fool would not recognise that such is Provo speak for the glorification of their terrorists.

 

“As Nigel Dodds warned: “However it is dressed up, whatever spin is deployed, the preservation of a section of the H-Blocks — including the hospital wing — would become a shrine to the terrorists who committed suicide in the Maze in the 1980s. That would be obnoxious to the vast majority of people and is something unionist people cannot accept.”

 

“Now the DUP are engaged in the very spin which their own deputy leader warned about!”