TUV leader's 'Terrorfest' youth camp fantasy is traditional fare

TUV leader Jim Allister

BY MARK MOLONEY

JIM ALLISTER MLA was traditionally ranting and raving this weekend, screaming to the media that an Ógra Shinn Féin youthcamp last weekend was a "Terrorfest".

The well-attended weekend included political debates, lectures, a hunger strike exhibition, a historical tour of south Armagh, a talk on the Basque Country and the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on Sunday afternoon.

Ógra Shinn Féin said that Allister's “wild-eyed ranting” comes as no surprise.

Ógra National Secretary David Collins told An Phoblacht:

The TUV makes its political career from living in an alternate reality.

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THE hypocristy of Jim Allister and his TUV party is quite evident. Only two years ago, Allister refused to take any action against TUV organiser Trevor Collins, who had started a petition calling for the release of UDA/UFF mass murderer Torrens Knight – the 'Trick or Treat' killer.

Knight was convicted of being responsible for the 1993 Greysteel Massacre. During a Halloween party a UDA death squad fired randomly into the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel, killing 8 customers and wounding 13 others.

Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement Knight was released in 2000 but sent back to prison for assaulting two women in a bar in Coleraine in 2008.

When Allister was confronted by journalists about the petition he refused to take any action against the TUV organiser trying to have the 'Trick or Treat' terrorist freed again.

Members of Ógra Shinn Féin in Crossmaglen