Statement by TUV leader JIm Allister:-
“The fine line between probing journalism and providing a platform for the rewriting of history was, I fear, crossed on the Nolan Show today.
“The narrative that the British Army’s actions spawned and justified the Provisional IRA is straight out of the Provo manual. No one was forced to be a terrorist. Eamonn, if that is his real name, choose to be a terrorist. If he murdered, he choose to murder – consciously and deliberately. His affirmation that the Unionist population should be driven out fits with that warped terrorist mindset.
“Having boasted on air of his terrorist exploits (though the full extent of same was not explored), it now behoves the PSNI to bring him to justice and, equally, it behoves the BBC’s Nolan Show to not withhold the information it clearly holds as to the identity of this terrorist. I trust there will be no equivocation from either quarter.”