Can the real DUP please stand up?
Photo: Peter Robinson BY DECLAN KEARNEY Sinn Féin Chairperson ON the evening of 24 May, as several hundred republicans from across County Derry and County Antrim, left the unveiling of a new monument to Kevin Lynch in the foothills of the Sperrins, a UDA-inspired mob invaded a small Catholic estate in Coleraine, 30 miles away. Local republicans returned to the town that night to discover one of their neighbours dead, another seriously injured, and others badly beaten. Martin McGuinness later said all that was missing in Coleraine were the white cloaks and hoods of the Ku Klux Klan. He was absolutely right. Coleraine is the Alabama of County Derry. There is a direct correlation between this behaviour and that of elected DUP officials in Stormont who refuse to exchange even basic courtesies with Sinn Féin personnel; a direct correlation with the deliberately offensive public utterances by DUP MLAs in respect of aspects of Irish national and cultural identity. Gerry Adams consistently mad
