Brendan again

Brendan MacCionnaith, however, briefly got over his brush with silliness. After the Ardoyne rioting, he swapped his Garvaghy Road hat for his Eirgri headwear as he claimed that the PSNI attacked ‘peaceful protestors’ in the Ardoyne in North Belfast, and that Sinn Fein has sold out the nationalist community.

Brendan could just be rivalling Jim Allister in the ‘all Northern Ireland’s elected politicians are dirty sell-outs’ chart-topping statements.

Of course, that the ‘peaceful protestors’ were criticised by Ardoyne residents and seemed to have had on hand petrol bombs, blast bombs, fireworks, firearms (including one rifle they ‘lost’ when children found it) is in Brendan’s eyes irrelevant and not worthy of comment.

In American military slang, Monday was Northern Ireland in SNAFU mode – Situation Normal All…… Up. (Fill in the blank word beginning with ‘f’ as you see fit.)