So much to blog and so little time. It's like being off work and coming back to an inbox overflowing with emails. Let's start with this kerfuffle over flags in Kilrea.

Long story short, some folk erect tricolour on Protestant church. Some other folk decide to repay the favour, erecting Union Jack on Roman Catholic church. As Turgon highlighted, more interesting than the incident itself is a local MLA's reaction (and the apparent double-standards therein). Compare and contrast his description of what happened to the Protestant church with what happened to the Catholic one.

"The congregation of the Church of Ireland have my deepest regret that their church was used to fly a Tricolour on Easter Sunday.

Likewise, as a member of the Catholic community, I deeply regret that the Marian Hall, built in honour of Our Lady, was also desecrated by the sectarian flying of the Union Flag."

John Dallat, MLA for East Londonderry

I'm sure the disparity in condemnation wasn't deliberate, but if not that's possibly worse as it perhaps belies an underlying, unspoken attitude that British symbols are inherently more sectarian than republican ones.

I should point out that Dallat isn't alone in this and I'd be surprised if any other representatives, nationalist or unionist, would act any differently. I just thought it was worth highlighting an attitude which I think we're all guilty of sometimes - that somehow the motivations of 'our lot' are more noble and/or less immoral than 'theirs'.