15/09/2011

The tragic death of young policeman Ronan Kerr reached across the secterian divide, but now the Ulster Unionist Party leader along with a Unionist Minister are to face Orange Order discipline charges for attending his funeral mass. Gross insensitivity - or simply a case of an organisation following through on its own rules??

The Royal Irish Homecoming Service has been moved away from central Belfast and into the grounds of Kings Hall.
Has politics here not moved on enough to allow a city centre parade, or is opposition to the British Army in some quarters still too strong??

And we hear from Ballymena where a Headmaster has stopped his pupils from buying sweets.