In Post Conflict NI, Touts Are “The Bravest Of The Brave”
Living in the shadow of gunmen, from Jim McDowell… Whether they live in loyalist or republican enclaves still bedevilled by the bully boys of the rump of the IRA, the UDA, the UVF, the INLA, or, now, the deranged dissidents, the courageous corps of decent folk who speak, even anonymously, to the newspapers, or the police, are dicing with death, or serious injury. Being burned in their beds at night with a petrol bomb hurled through a window. Or petrol …
