IT wasn’t just that the GFA25 three-day conference at Queen’s was a “bubble” (Jeffrey Donaldson), it was worse: “prep for a united Ireland campaign” (Ian Paisley Jnr). Donaldson wasn’t present because it was more important to be in London where the “mood” was different: “There is a realism in London that frankly there isn’t at the event in Queen’s”.
Protestant paramilitaries plotted to murder Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble as he inched towards sharing power with Catholics, the Sunday World can reveal.