‘Are DUP trying to claim credit for other people’s work?’

Following Nigel Dodds’ letter attacking me and the UUP (Newtownabbey Times, February 27), several people in Glengormley said to me that they were surprised at the language used.

They felt that my original letter, congratulating the council’s senior management team and confirming that if the DUP-supported Peace and Reconciliation Centre at the Maze had went ahead then there would have been no money for the Valley Park scheme, must have hit a raw nerve.

Of course I wasn’t surprised because Nigel rightly knows that it was a mistake of monumental proportions to campaign with Sinn Fein for a project at the Maze for what would most certainly have caused massive hurt to victims and survivors of the troubles from all sides.