Eoghan Harris's claim he was friends with David Ervine 'complete fantasy'
David Ervine (left) leader of the Progressive Unionist Party meeting Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin in 2005. File picture by Niall Carson, Press Association
Former PUP leader Dawn Purvis
A friend and colleague of the late David Ervine has rubbished sacked Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris's claim that he was close to the former Progressive Unionist Party leader.
Mr Harris told RTÉ that he was a "close friend of David Ervine and a friend of Gusty Spence and I have very strong views about the Protestant and loyalist working class, and I felt they had been very alienated".