Embarrassment for McNarry…

HAS David McNarry of the UUP been badly caught out by the DUP’s Iris Robinson? If the DUP website is anything to go by, a speech by McNarry on Monday appears to bear a “startling similarity” to one delivered by Iris in Westminster on 19th April 2006. It’s barely over a year since McNarry was accused of applying for a job on the Parades Commission, a body he claimed he actually wanted rid of (noted in my post which rightly hinted at future rows over appointments to the commission). I don’t think I’ve seen such a blatant example of textbook copying since the SDLP shamelessly plagiarised Alliance’s economic policy in an election manifesto a few years back…

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