The DUP are not the political wing of anybody. Where did you get this garbage from? That’s like saying Sinn Fein are the political wing of the Roman Catholic church! It’s not. The DUP attract a sizable vote from both the churched and unchurched Protestant and is not dependent on fundamentalists. It is a mainly working class party that attracts a working class vote. Like all the political parties they have millionaires among their electorate but to say ‘many’ is a gross exaggeration. The evangelical vote you will find goes to the more moderate Unionist and Alliance parties and the millionaires you guess at are more than likely to be found in their midst. For example the richest part of NI, the ‘Gold Coast’ is Lady Sylvia Hermon’s seat.

You speculate much with far too many unsubstantiated theories. Perhaps you would like to give your opinion on proven tax evasion, money laundering, cross border racketeering and criminality among Sinn Fein supporters in South Armagh too. And perhaps the odd death here and there.

Were you equally astounded to find out how many Sinn Fein and SDLP MPs MLAs and Councillors go to the same chapel, are related to each other and have relatives working for them. Thought not.

The majority of the DUP are not members of the Orange Order! The OO probably wish they were. The Independent Orange Order would probably claim some. The Orange Order should not renowned for its murderous hate of Catholics anymore than the GAA be renowned for its murderous hate of the British/Protestants. People who belong to the OO and GAA have carried out foul deeds but should not be held symptomatic of their respective organisations. Both organisations however have an unacceptable anti-element attached to them which should be condemned.

This sound like a defence of the DUP. It’s not. I can’t stand them as I have already stated in previous post. But there are two sides to every story and closed minds and irrational thought processs are not the monopoly of one side of the community.

Perhaps I’ll have opened your mind Mark to investigating Northern Ireland/Six Counties properly instead of depending on spin National Enquirer-like rubbish.

I was astounded to find out just how many MP’s MLA’s and counsellors in the DUP are members of the same church. Several DUP members are related to each other and are members of the same family like the Paisley’s and the Robinson’s.

A majority of the DUP are members of the Orange Order that is renowned for its murderous hate of Catholics. How the hell can these closed minded people be allowed to behave like a 1920’s Tennessee community? These people are ignorant, greedy hillbillies.

The Paisley Outfit, the Priests with their paedophilia or without it, Adams, McGuiness and Co and the repellent Robinsons and their whining apologists are beyond exculpation. As for Kirk McCambley, I don’t know what his faith is but I accepted what I read. If I got it wrong then thanks for putting me right to the extent that it matters.

A buddy of mine in Northern Ireland phoned me a couple of days ago for a chat and he says McCambley’s father’s butchers shop is on the way to “becoming a tourist attraction.” He added, “as long as it is not becoming a shrine that’s OK with me. Next think they will be selling souvenir mugs of Kirk.”

When the Good Friday Agreement was signed I was shocked to see a few Closed Brethren leaders I knew come out of the woodwork and put their name to an anti-Good Friday Agreement advertisement in the Belfast News Letter! I have a feeling they had their arms twisted by Paisley.

Kirk McCambley is from the Protestant community and is not a Catholic as some of your writers have suggested – sure it spices the story up but let’s deal in facts!!!

There are many like myself from the Christian community in Northern Ireland who have little time for the religious bigotry of the DUP and the Free Presbyterian Church – others like myself who have seen through Paisley from the very start and would agree with everything barriejohn wrote.

Paisley, Robinson and Co are as much godfathers of terrorism as Adams, McGuinness and their Army Council. While P, R & Co may not have pulled triggers or planted bombs, both sides did stamp on people their own hallmarks of destruction, degradation and despair and many served time for acting out the fevered dreams of their political quartermasters. I personally don’t consider any of these folks mentioned as being followers of Jesus as they are seriously deluded, a negation of Christianity and an ugly cartoon version of the christian faith.

For the moment, perhaps for the first time, he isn’t spewing his bile over us – perhaps because Iris and |Pete share his views.