Thursday, September 12, 2002

<%itemTemplate%> <%itemText%> <%when%>  <%permalink%>  <%editButton%> <%enclosure%> Davy Carlin From The Blanket As David Trimble took the 'impartial' decision as the leading elected representative of the peoples of N. Ireland to do his walk-about in Cluan Place I and several other trade union activists co-incidentally took up the invite to visit Clandeboye Drive on the same day. We spent approximately two and a half hours there on which I shall give an objective account of those hours 4.30pm-7pm. The last time I was in the Short Strand was in answer to the call for an anti-sectarianism rally in which we witnessed both a person being shot and the rally attacked. Yet on that evening's televised news coverage I watched media revisionism in full flow in which the portrayal of the ' two warring tribes' were at it again. Yet my perception is that there was a deliberate attempt by some to portray a non-reality that evening. Yet again the media scrum accompanying Trimble's visit into Cluan Place and his unrepresentative approach on that day said nothing for the reality on the ground. 6:50:09 AM