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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 .
Citizenship campaigner Emma DeSouza. Picture by Liam McBurney, Press Association
JOURNALIST Aoife Moore had to have counselling after an anonymous Twitter account linked to former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris sent her sexualised messages and called her a terrorist.
Derry-born Ms Moore, political correspondent for The Irish Examiner, said she had to contact gardaí after she was repeatedly trolled by the now suspended @barbarapym2 Twitter account. This account sent me sexualised messages about whether Mary Lou McDonald turned me on , the size of my arse and called me a terrorist from the month I started at the Examiner, she tweeted.
The first one hundred years of Northern Ireland s existence is ending as it began - with violence on the streets of Belfast and unionism in crisis.
The Belfast riots from 1920 to 1922 - known by some as the first Troubles - were a knee-jerk reaction by loyalists troubled by the raging guerrilla war against the UK and the perceived threat of being wrenched away from its bosom by southern nationalists.
For some, history appears to be repeating itself in 2021.
Just weeks after some of the worst rioting in the capital for years, the first minister and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster announced her resignation on Wednesday after a revolt against her continued leadership by the party s rank and file.