How Arlene Foster went from untouchable to expendable A 1988 interview with Foster after her school bus was bombed hints at her political future Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 22:06
In 1988, a 17-year-old Arlene Foster – then Arlene Kelly – was interviewed alongside a Catholic teenager after the IRA bombed their school bus in Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh. She explains how Protestant and Catholic pupils sit apart on the bus. When asked if they will sit together in the future, her answer gave a clue to the politician she was to become. “Well I think it’s up to the whole bus to change it. In fact it’s up to the whole of the young people of Northern Ireland to change what is happening, to turn against the men of violence.”