The untruths in Unionist deprivation and poverty claims
• Unionist parties need to give responsible leadership as the alternative is chaos » Peadar Whelan While DUP leader Arlene Foster was accusing republicans of waging a “cultural war” on unionism and heightening tensions again, it has emerged that only for the efforts of Sinn Féin and community activists on the Springfield Road, in West Belfast, a major outbreak of trouble was averted. As loyalists gathered on the Shankill Road last Wednesday 7 April, youths armed with petrol bombs, cans of petrol and rocks hi-jacked a bus which free-wheeled out of control as it was engulfed in flames a...