A Tangled Web

WRITING ON THE WALLS....



What sort of people daub graffiti on a wall in north Belfast (where else? Sadly) mocking the controversial death of a Protestant boy three years ago. The words, on a wall at the Shore Road, were painted out by residents of the nationalist Bawnmore estate on Saturday morning.



Thomas McDonald, 16, was struck by a car as he rode his bicycle along Whitewell Road in September 2001. The Protestant youth was knocked from his bike by a Catholic woman's car when she chased him along a footpath after he had thrown a brick at her windscreen. The County Antrim mother-of-six was sentenced to two years in prison for Mr McDonald's manslaughter after she admitted killing him by dangerous driving but denied murdering him.



Thank fully, some local people, ashamed of what has been done, covered it up.

The crocodile words of Gerry Kelly mean nothing. Talk about dancing on graves.