“I want a society where we will have politics & not a sectarian pantomime” (Alf McCreary in 1976)
In his autobiography Behind the Headlines, Alf McCreary recalls his editor’s leading article in the Belfast Telegraph on 5 November 1968 in which Jack Sayers wrote: The threat to Northern Ireland’s future is not … the IRA or even Nationalism. It comes from Protestant Ulstermen who will not allow themselves to be liberated from the delusion that every Roman Catholic is their enemy. [Ed – some blog post readers will stop at this point and immediately jump down to the …