Politicians take to letters pages

Where they are not able to get into the editorial pages, it seems politicians are keen to get their own particular memos in to the public domain. Both Sam Foster and John Taylor (Lord Kilclooney) have made it into tonight’s Belfast Telegraph’s letter pages – the former with the particularly provocative jibe at Jeffrey Donaldson, that he is firing into his own trenches. In the Irish News, Father Aidan Troy has mounted a vigorous defence (subs needed) of the HRC’s conduct over the Holy Cross affair.


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