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Via today’s Irish News (unavailable online)

NI First Minister Peter Robinson has voiced support for the Belfast preacher whose firebrand sermon is at the centre of a hate crime investigation.

The DUP leader said that in the past he had joined the congregation of Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle to listen to Pastor James McConnell (above) preach and that he intended to go back to the church in the future.

He described the preacher as “somebody who has lived his life for Christ”. The first minister said it was “the duty of any Christian preacher to denounce false doctrine”. “That’s a duty – so he’s perfectly entitled to do that – it’s an appropriate thing for a minister to do”, he said.

The DUP leader also said he did not trust Muslims who had been involved in “terrorist activities” or those who were “fully devoted to Sharia Law”. But he did say he would “trust them to go down the shops for me” and undertake other day-to-day tasks.

Right so.

No word from the First Minister about the homophobic sermons then?

Peter Robinson under fire for backing Pastor James McConnell’s Islamic remarks (BBC News)

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The first TUV councillor to be elected to Belfast City Council has apologised for sectarian comments she made about Catholics on Facebook.

However, Jolene Bunting (21) said she does not regret their content.

“I wrote them in the wrong. I’ve matured since then and I realise now that ranting on Facebook isn’t going to change anything. The council chamber is where I will be voicing my concerns,” she said.

“I do want to apologise for the innocent people in the Court ward who I offended with by using the word Catholic when I meant republicans,” she said.

“At the time I was young and not a member of the TUV and I know that since then I have matured in my knowledge and understanding.”

 Fenian bastards not Catholic bastards then.

What about the asylum seekers/Eastern Europeans/travellers/hairdressers?

TUV councillor Jolene Bunting ‘sorry’ for anti-Catholic rants on Facebook (Dave Whelan, Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: A Traditional Voice

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Ulster Unionist candidate in Botanic ward for Belfast City council, Graham Craig:

“Supporting local homes for local people.”

Oh.

Via L.A.D

Graham Craig for Botanic (Facebook)

Previously: Meanwhile, In East Belfast

Meanwhile, In South Belfast

Polish Guy Walks Into A Bar In Belfast

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Danny Devenny writes:

The mural of Gerry Adams has now been taken away…at his own request….he suggested a mural highlighting the Ballymurphy Martyrs Campaign would be much more deserving of space on the wall…..working on it now…..

He has gone away you know.

Previously: Political Strokes

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Gulp.

Pic: Wikipedia

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Four.

Meanwhile…

“I was told that the interrogations were an evidence-gathering process, and that the police would be making the case that I was a member of the IRA; that I had a senior IRA managerial role in Belfast at the time of Jean McConville’s abduction; and that I was therefore bound to know about her killing.

I challenged my interrogators to produce the new evidential material. They said that this would happen at a later interview but they wanted to take me through my childhood, family history and so on. Over the following four days it became clear that the objective of the interviews was to get to the point where they could charge me with IRA membership and thereby link me to the McConville case. The membership charge was clearly their principal goal. The interrogators made no secret of this. At one point the male detective described their plan as “a stage-managed approach”. It later transpired that it was a phased strategy, with nine different phases.

The first phases dealt with my family history of republican activism. My own early involvement in Sinn Féin as a teenager – when it was a banned organisation. My time in the 1960s in the civil rights movement and various housing action groups in west Belfast, the pogroms of 1969 and the start of the Troubles.

It was asserted that I was guilty of IRA membership through association because of my family background – my friends. They referred to countless pieces of “open source” material that, they said, linked me to the IRA. These were anonymous newspaper articles from 1971 and 1972, photographs of Martin McGuinness and me at republican funerals, and books about the period.

If any of these claimed I was in the IRA, then that was, according to my interrogators, evidence. They consistently cast up my habit of referring to friends as “comrades”. This, they said, was evidence of IRA membership. They claimed I was turned by special branch during interrogations in Belfast’s Palace Barracks in 1972 and that I became an MI5 agent! They also spoke about the peace talks in 1972, and my periods of internment and imprisonment in Long Kesh. This was presented as “bad-character evidence…”

Gerry Adams.

The Jean McConville killing: I’m completely innocent. But what were my accusers’ motives? (Gerry Adams, The Guardian)

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Can you guess who it is yet?

Previously: Political Strokes

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[The urn containing Kevin Dorothy’s ashes]

Laugh?

He killed.

Kevin Dorothy, 53, who died in December, had wanted to take part in the comedy night at the Belfast’s  Pavilion Bar.

On Monday night, one of his friends, Stephen Mullan, took to the stage at the Ormeau Road venue complete with Kevin’s ashes in an urn. The routine consisted of jokes Kevin had texted to Stephen and other friends.

[friend Tom Sweeney said]  “Nobody had seen anything like it. You hear about comedians dying on stage. Well, Kevin jumped the gun.”


Dead man fulfils comedy club wish (Johnny Caldwell, BBC News NI)