In the 1945 musical Carousel, the grief stricken Julie Jordan attempts to sing You’ll Never Walk Alone following the sudden death of her lover, the protagonist Billy Bigelow.
Ian Paisley was a real leader of Ulster unionism. After the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the Good Friday Agreement he was able to call more than 100,000 unionists onto the streets at a moment’s notice.
At times ne wonders at the capacity for unionist politicians to keep digging holes for themselves, which unhappily means the resultant ‘spoil’ falls on the rest of us as well. In the long run, the DUP self-inflicted wound, the Northern Ireland Protocol row will produce some sort of fudged face-saving formulation.
I write in response to a letter written by four MLAs for South Antrim (January 19) questioning the need to develop modern waste infrastructure for local councils representing 1.1 million people.