WALK WITH DINOFLAWS
Most people probably aren’t bothered who becomes the next leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
But one of the candidates is Edwin Poots.
This is the man so fundamentalist Christian that he claims the Giant’s Causeway isn’t, as scientists say, a 60-million-yearold geological phenomenon but, in fact, was formed by God 6,000 years ago, along with the rest of the Earth.
So at this delicate point in Irish history, we could have a First Minister of Northern Ireland who doesn’t believe dinosaurs existed.
You can see the advantage to this, because Ireland’s problem has always been there’s not enough religion.
He can make speeches such as: “Unemployment has risen, but there is an obvious reason. It’s because the Good Lord is angry with us as some people hang out their washing on a Sunday.
“If we respect the Lord’s Day I expect a return to economic growth of three per cent.”
So before long, Northern Ireland’s leader could receive messages from the Ayatollahs of Iran that say: “All rightEdwin, you don’t need to be THAT religious. Have a little bit of fun… you can take fundamentalism too far mate”.
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This week I watched Alien on TV for the first time in many years. In the plot, an arrogant man in charge of a ship ignores the warnings that a strange thing could do lots of damage – allowing it in, against the advice of safety experts. Then, when the bodies pile high as predicted, he takes no responsibility at all. What a daft idea for a story.