A Road To Derry Conversion
That was the biblical paraphrase one of the Bloody Sunday victims used on the Nolan Show this morning to describe last night's apology from David Ford for his infelicitous description of the Saville inquiry as "pointless". Eamon McCann expressed his scepticism about what he regards as a "Save Dave" operation mounted over the last 24 hours. To borrow a phrase from another historic case, it looks like Sinn Fein surveyed the potentially "appalling vista" of losing the most plausible candidate for Justice Minister and did what they could to extricate the Alliance leader from the mess. Sinn Fein's failure to rule him out, and their attempt to try to turn some of their opprobrium on the SDLP for allegedly leaking the story, means the Ford candidacy is still alive. Alliance may breath a sigh of relief that Tuesday's vote is on the principle of devolving justice rather than the choice of an individual as minister.
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