Lockerbie appeal. Lack of media interest.

[Peter Presland]

Btw Peter, I think you can safely add the Omagh bombing to your list of who didn't dunnits. But don't tell anyone, okay. Mum's the word.

Any thoughts on the recent unrest in the six counties?

Magda/David

My wife is from Co Fermanagh. The happiest times of my life were spent on our annual holiday among family in the border areas of South Fermanagh through 'The troubles' over a twenty year period from the mid-seventies. I therefore have lots of anecdotes and (I believe) insight into the NI situation, though no claim to inside knowledge of significance.

What I do know is that the British were involved in dirty tricks every bit as unconscionable as those of the so called 'para-militaries' It was - and to some extent remains - a morass of viciousness and deceit with the British leading by example.

As for the current unrest, my family contacts maintain that that there is little appetite for a return to 'The armed Struggle'. But the economy is on its knees, as is that of the Free State, so who knows what the future may hold?

Martin McGuiness's characterisation of the present Republican rebels as 'Traitors' was a BIG mistake though. Condemnation of behaviour is one thing; 'TRAITORS' quite another and very reminiscent of Michael Collins 90 years earlier. As a man presumably cognisant of Irish history, I suspect he regrets his use of the term.