http://www.everythingulster.com/blog/index.php?disp=comments en-UK http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Wed, 30 May 2007 22:16:59 +0000 Paul [Visitor] c4313@http://www.everythingulster.com/blog/ Good post Beano.<br /> <br /> <em>"If only we'd listened to them" list, up there with Terence O'Neill and Lord Carson.</em><br /> <br /> Carson's words were prophetic:<br /> <br /> <em>We used to say that we could not trust an Irish parliament in Dublin to do justice to the Protestant minority. Let us take care that that reproach can no longer be made against your parliament, and from the outset let them see that the Catholic minority have nothing to fear from a Protestant majority.</em><br /> <br /> I think in time Trimble will be added to your list, although change it to maybe "if we'd only listened to him earlier we wouldn't have ended up with Paisley and McGuinness in government" and you'd be close to the truth.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
"If only we'd listened to them" list, up there with Terence O'Neill and Lord Carson.

Carson's words were prophetic:

We used to say that we could not trust an Irish parliament in Dublin to do justice to the Protestant minority. Let us take care that that reproach can no longer be made against your parliament, and from the outset let them see that the Catholic minority have nothing to fear from a Protestant majority.

I think in time Trimble will be added to your list, although change it to maybe "if we'd only listened to him earlier we wouldn't have ended up with Paisley and McGuinness in government" and you'd be close to the truth.



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