Richard Ingrarns
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report ost Irish the explosion at BallykellY, bra/111.11i ; 1 John Hume, leader of the SO?, chio renewed ewed their interest in Northern Itehoi ever sfuoneral. It is basically true, however, o_e sae.corpses being carried away, the sulijoi th saying that he t television, the impact is not a veil girr one. A few days later we are already be like the injuries that he has all these have an impact. ut, iti,stinl _ Port of another shooting or Yet all°thst .
eryone a jolt. The scenes of the vire coo
question back on the box 'Hil ' allykelly took place that the rod• every night the news contalo
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g like Ballykelly does oc• has never known all) _1., tut it trebacia 101' ' gt° forget about it. In six months will the rib! of Rallykelly do anything more than 1h vague bell, a place somewhere in Nor- 14sern Ireland where something, probably st,„Y' John some time ago? he ohn Hume was partly right to blame Atiorntlia for the flippancy of their iii(1°,,. He made a better point when he 1141,,`"at their attitude to things like politiciellY exposed the humbug of British ans who think and talk about Nor- ` Ireland being a part of the United rn. Yet it is the fact that it is all hap- I4 In a corner of Ireland, another cou. n- 1 'isaf
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the ', helps us conveniently to forget that"allYkellys — after a suitable interval, Y,1 is and afr he uneras of th been showtent f l on News at Ten. the soldiers Iyofusual there was no shortage on the tel- tboutMPs of the type that Hume complains yistor those who despite the logic of hhuYg and geography maintain that Nor- kri Ireland is not, as its name suggests, tritis?: Ireland, but a piece of Britain, as kit of as Dorset or Wales. Julian Amery, Waiderithe on TWeekend ory MPs interviewed by Berian to f kk, • even more so by the process o ,Ing called 'integration'. In this, ap- I PItIY, he follows the lead of Enoch k,k`uu' a man whom some people revere itlo se he speaks his mind. Speak his mind itiiela, but what sort of of a mind is it that lorti.,!s' oPPosition to all the facts, that iiisor7rn Ireland can somehow be total y kite ued into the United Kingdom? As for ;:ott li3rY,' Was rather amazed to see this treated relic of the Macmillan era .still ireated by the televisionas as a serious J. On this occasion he was opposed by 14etesall-Purpose moderate Tory, Michael Itless (member for Petersfield). But the 't to clise tission seemed wonderfully too, the Northern Ireland crisis. a '00, that get Weekend World was unable Ilse to .174 of a couple of heavyweights to w_Ine occasion and talk about Ireland Iw ay that might hold out some hope. 1 48 glad to see that my view of Channel is shared ed minor_ty programmes is s ar ',°te"eest Public, according to Mr Robert ' er of Mori polls. Appearing in the ed annel's answer to Points of View, rilkabliNht tn Dly, Mr Worcester, an Aco F and bald in American, said that ding g g his researchers only a tiny "ttest,'Y of the various minorities were in- %t' This confirmed my opinion that ■ ,1 s they . the tong with these programmes is not they are aimed at minorities but simply keh beY are deadly dull. I have never seen eres as the Jewish intellectuals who }[she sern. bled by Al Alvarez (no mean :tlitkas hints elf) on Voices to discuss the Not Of Jews in the light of Mr Begin's 1 to rrst w‘ar: Here was a topic of interest Minority' and 'majority' but when i oiv,„ spe aker, a bearded professor, was to e Passage begin by reading out his from scripture, a process fi 011 and on and on I lost interest sure Most other viewers did too.
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