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No Pope In Our Town
When I initially read the headline "Unionists Against Papal Visit" I was disappointed and confused. Frankly if the Pope wants to come to Northern Ireland why shouldn't he? It's a free country.
But having read two "reports" on this story, I've been unable to determine exactly what the problem was. Speaking about the idea of a joint visit by the Queen and the Pope, Gregory Campbell said he thought it was a politically motivated idea, symbolically, to promote whatever deal might emerge from the current situation.
What I don't understand is how Gregory Campbell saying it's unrealistic suddenly equals being against the visit. Either the journalists are inventing a particularly cynical story or they're being careless and lazy; not including enough relevant quotes. For once in the case of a DUP statement, I actually suspect one of the former. The question is why? Is it to fill column-inches on a slow news day, or is it an attempt to re-enforce the image of unionists as dinosaurs?
Look at this story from BreakingNews.ie. After running with the headline "DUP's Campbell against visit to [Northern Ireland] by Pope" their basis for saying so seems to be that he "said the idea of the Pope and Queen Elizabeth visiting together, to put a seal on a new political agreement, was unrealistic."
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