There has been a lot of deliberate misinformation about the nature and intent of Love Ulster,a group set up to remember people killed during the British occupation of the North of Ireland. The group which announced yesterday that it intends to try again to march through Dublin.

Last year we saw appalling acts of violence in the capital as the proposed march was called off following a riot in O'Connell Street. We're told by some that the group only wants to remind the people of the Irish Republic of the dreadful suffering inflicted on families of Loyalist extremists by the IRA.

Jim Dixon a disgraced ex R.U.C. man is one of the groups very unsavoury people in a senior position. It was bad enough that Willie Frazer,their leader and a well known South Armagh loyalist terror leader refused to guarantee that a picture of loyalist mass murderer Robert McConnell – known to be responsible for the Dublin/Monagahan bombs – would not be carried at the march.

It was bad enough to read of some of the utterings of Mr Frazer in the past, including his regard for Billy Wright and his belief that no loyalist paramilitary should ever have seen the inside of a prison.


But the manic outpourings of disgraced ex R.U.C. man Mr Dixon underscore the reality that the group contains some people with reactionary and extreme loyalist views. Today, Dublin is a cosmopolitan and multi-racial society which is home to many thousands of people from ethnic backgrounds who supply the extra labour needed to power the country's economic growth. Of the entry of black people into Ireland, Mr Dixon said yesterday: "It's wrong that blacks are coming to Northern Ireland. I go along with what Enoch Powell said. I couldn't care less if people call me a racist. I couldn't care less what they think." Of the disgusting apartheid regime in South Africa, Mr Dixon said: "Under apartheid the black man was better paid, they had better jobs, better everything. He was treated better than anywhere else in the world."

If Love Ulster is serious about this second march it should require Mr Dixon to apologise for his outrageous remarks. And remove two convicted sex offenders from their committee. This group known as F.A.I.R. has recently been refused British government financial support. We wonder why ?