Brian Walker quotes from an essay by Arthur Aughy from a collection called Aspects of the Belfast Agreement, suggesting that unionists need to break out of what Aughy calls “an orgy of self-pity and culture of fatalism”.
Meanwhile, despite numerous protests against sectarianism, trouble continues on the ground in North Belfast.
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