Stop reading The Irish News – Robinson
NORTHERN Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has called for people to stop reading The Irish News.
The paper, which dedicated three pages to the DUP leader’s comments on Saturday, claimed Mr Robinson was hitting back at press enquiries over the trip to Brazil and America during which he was accompanied by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Noel Doran, the editor of The Irish News said if the public were to heed Mr Robinson’s boycott call, then 150 jobs would be loss with the subsequent closure of the newspaper.
“It sill has to be remarkable that the person who is effectively our prime minister should be urging a boycott… simply for asking legitimate questions about the spending of taxpayers money,” said Mr Doran.
Seamus Dooley from the National Union of Journalists said the First Minister’s comments were “irresponsible” and “insulting”.
