A Sausage Sandwich?
Last week I drove to Cookstown to interview Martin McGuinness for Inside Politics, but I'm afraid I completely missed the real story. My sources tell me that a Sandwich War is in danger of breaking out at the Council.
Previously councillors got used to taking their tea and sandwiches after council and committee meetings in the Chairman's office. But nationalists complain that the practice ended after the DUP's Ian McCrea, son of Willie, took over.
Councillors noticed the change when they discovered their sandwiches on a trolley in a corridor close to a gent's toilet. In high dudgeon, Sinn Fein Councillors Clarke, Molloy, McNamee, McAleer, and Mc Ivor all put their names to the following motion.
鈥漈hat this Council agrees that the practice of providing hospitality for Councillors, staff and visitors in the Chairman鈥檚 room at Council and Statutory Committee meetings is reinstated with immediate effect鈥.
I don't know exactly what fillings they have in their butties, but given this is Cookstown I hope some of them are sausage sandwiches.
UPDATE: My Cookstown sources tell me a compromise is under discussion - the Council's marriage room is now being touted as a possible venue for hospitality. Both sides to the dispute will have to vow to love, honour and clean up each other's crumbs...
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did u actually find McGuinness in Cookstown, last time of looking i could only find Patsy McGlone, who actually does Mid-Ulster work, Marty seems to be an Absentee Landlord!
Is this supposed to be in any way witty? These articles are proving to be a waste of space.
Don't sit reading them when you should be in bed then!
Mark
Cookstown Council鈥檚 storm-in-a-teacup is a small expression of DUP grassroots contempt for the current Assembly arrangements. The Party鈥檚 immoderate participation in the Stormont Love-in cannot disguise rank and file unrest with the leadership. How long before the split within the DUP is formalized?
Susie
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