Despite the rumours of his imminent demise.. Malachi O’Doherty, in today’s Belfast Telegraph, on the “Riots billed in advance like country ceilidhs” – “The apprehension of what is to come will excite the testosterone-charged young men on both sides but it will hang like a stale cloud over the heads of everyone else who is either stuck in one of those areas or committed by principle to being there. And behind them will be the political manipulators working out what point is best made in their interest, and whether it is best made by mayhem or measured tolerance.”
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