Belfast Telegraph

Sex and the Shinner

The deal was that if Sinn Fein/PIRA stopped bombing England then they would get seats in government.

The body language/language of Adams and McGuinness ever since is that of the pupil who is confident that the Head will not discipline him , because he is a snitch.

However, as time has moved on , the guns and the semtex are  [mostly] gone. The war is over and Gerry and Martin are beginning to wonder if Perfidious Albion has done the dirty on them  and that they are not going to be protected after all. Hence McGuinness’s comment after the arrest of Adams. It was a message to the Brits.

This society will never move on until those responsible for hundreds of deaths are prosecuted.

Education and charity

The two Grammar schools in Lisburn City , Friends and Wallace, educate 2152 secondary school pupils. Of these, 47, or two percent, are entitled to free school meals.

The four secondary schools, Laurelhill, Fort Hill, Lisnagarvey and St Patrick’s , educate 2640 children.Of these , 528 or twenty two percent, take free school meals.

The figures [ from DENI], speak for themselves.

Friends and Wallace are entitled to charitable status and the benefits which that brings.

The Charity Commission is now in full operation in Northern Ireland.

It is clear from these figures that a section of the public, children from poor homes, is largely excluded from a grammar school education.

Friends and Wallace might point out, in response that all children are afforded an equal chance by sitting the AQE test. This of course is nonsense as the test does not measure academic ability. In addition, well off parents pay for their children to be coached.

When might we expect the Charity Commission, which is “committed to equality and diversity in all that we do” to investigate this dreadful state of affairs, which is replicated throughout Northern Ireland?