Fanciful stories & fairy-tale's

Smeared on the front page of this mornings Sunday World is a fabrication on a par with any of Roald Dahl’s fairy-tale classics. 

So called ‘Journalist’ (we use that term very, very loosely) and convicted drunk driver Richard Sullivan has once again plucked a divisive, derogatory and undoubtedly false story from the ether and splashed the unsubstantiated lies across three pages in this weeks edition of the Sunday rag.

Hitting out at the collective unionist organisations, who not so long ago publicly committed to fight against corruption and crime from rogue elements within the respective organisations, Drunken Dick has claimed today, through the usual unnameable and most likely non-existent sources that its business as usual for the ‘crime bosses’ across the board.

With stories of massive drug empires, involvement with international cartels and stormy high level meetings it’s getting difficult to see what reality, if any, Richard Sullivan has currently taken residence.

We would have to ask ourselves what motive Richard Sullivan would possibly have to cast shadows on the progress made in recent weeks and months, such as anti-drug campaigns, suicide awareness and initiatives to engage with the PSNI at local level. Just what is the agenda? 

But sure, it sells papers......

The Unionist fight against drugs.

Our next article is from guest contributor Kyle Warner highlighting the fight against drugs in Unionist communities and how that fight is misrepresented, distorted and hampered by agenda media lies.

Contrary to the popular narrative peddled by the biased northern Irish media, in particular rags such as the Sunday World, unionist areas are leading the way in fighting against the sale and use of drugs, with some high profile campaigns.

All to often the unscrupulous anti-unionist media have stated that drugs have brought working class unionist communities to their knees and falsely claimed through 'unnamed sources' that paramilitary 'crime bosses' have perpetuated the trend of giving the kids drugs and lining their pockets, no matter what the cost is to life, this is simply not the case.

In reality working class areas are fighting hard to rid this scourge from their communities, with all apart from the dealers and users themselves pulling in the same direction.

Anti-drug poster for part of the #tellthepeelersonthedealers campaign

For example South Belfast Act Initiative, working alongside the Alternatives and the PSNI have just today launched a high profile anti-drug campaign in four predominantly unionist areas, Donegall Road, Donegall Pass, Lisburn and the Village.

The campaign slogan #TellThePeelersOnTheDealers is the latest attempt to rid these areas from drug dealers and their filthy clientele.

Coupled with the ongoing #1pillwillkill campaign there is hope in these areas that the influx of drugs from various outside sources will soon cease or educate so that there is little or no demand.

Media silent on Easter terror displays

Is it too much to ask for impartiality from local media outlets over the subject of flags and emblems? It certainly seems so when we compare and contrast the level of media reportage focused on the flying of flags commemorating the Battle of the Somme and the Glorious Revolution in East and South Belfast last June/July with total silence from local press, radio and TV in recent days following the erection of pro-terrorist emblems ahead of the Easter Rising commemoration parades on Easter Sunday along a stretch of the Falls Road covering the Royal Victoria Hospital and entrance to it.

Northern Irish media outlets such as the Irish News, Belfast Telegraph, BBCNI and UTV did not waste time in jumping on board the politically generated furore over wholly legal and culturally relevant flags last summer, including the flying of our national standard, the Union Flag. Where is that urgency to "report the facts" now?,

The Royal Victoria Hospital is used by all sections of the community. The Unionist community should not feel threatened and intimidated by INLA and IRA signs along with an emblem of an automatic rifle. Sane and rational minds would see this as a newsworthy story and in the interests of fair and balanced reporting. This blatant sectarian intimidation clearly does not apply to a local, increasingly agenda led media which only show interest if the story paints unionist communities in a bad light.