Vice-chairman of the Traditional Unionist Party apparently believes in leprechauns |
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November 7, 2009: In case you haven't been following too closely, the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, is a splinter group from the Official Unionist, OUP–it split because the members didn't agree with how the OUP was handling the Catholic issue. The Traditional Unionist Party, the TUV, split from the DUP, because the members didn't agree with how the DUP was handling the Catholic issue. It's how things are done in Ireland. In fact, there are, or have been, at least a dozen flavors of unionists. Staying in some sort of union isn't their strong suit. Of course, nationalists enjoy splintering too. Back to the TUV: they're currently all over the media in Ireland because the vice-chairman of the party said that Irish is a "leprechaun language." They've back-tracked, apologizing for what they now say was a childish mistake. I don't think the apology is the story. I think that the big story here is that vice-chairman of the TUV must believe that leprechauns are real–worse, he apparently knows the language they speak.
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