Last week someone within the oxymoronic loyalist ‘political research’ organisation better known as the UPRG posted a Halloween message with the infamous haunting words from the Greysteel massacre “Trick or treat” - ”Stay safe at Halloween”.
Those who posted it were not mindless. The phrase used was intended to heap hurt onto pain. It purposefully mocked the slaughtered victims and their bereaved families.
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But the north has never been normal and justice has been blunted. One of the biggest compromises made for peace resulted in all survivors and their families enduring the macabre spectacle of loyalist and republican killers freely strolling the streets like cock of the walk.
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