On the run
I'm just back from doing the Stormont Mile for Sport Relief. I hadn't realised my co-presenter Jim Fitzpatrick was organising it today, so didn't have my trainers with me. That's my excuse for strolling the course down to the Newtownards Road and back, and I'm sticking to it.
David Ford won, without any need for Sinn Fein and the DUP to fix the rules in advance for him. Gerry Kelly raced down the hill and back again, amidst shouts of "make way for the On the Runs". And Gregory Campbell walked the course with a sign pinned to his chest saying "Where's Nolan? He Can't Run" and another pinned to his back adding "And He Can't Hide".
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Please can the BBC News team start reporting News and not the social commentary that surrounds the News. There is no doubt that the young kidnapped chaps family is pleased to find out that he is safe and well. And we all are, not often good news makes the headline. In theory maybe some more of that. But as a headline newscast surely the focus on how he was found, why he was released and the political forces behind this action is News. What is going on with the constant social commentary and where are the facts. Surely that is what a tabloids is for.
Not only that but the reporting is getting sloppy. I cant help thinking about the report of the Haiti earthquake telling us about the fighting for scraps of food. It looked like that until one fellow emerges with a victory grin from the bundle clutching a bottle of Möet. Scraps of food, so what really happened there. Chaps…..
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Mark,
Gregory would be better served working out who owns his constituency office. From where I sit he can dodge the question but eventually the truth will emerge.
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