Good "Old Ironsides"
It would really take something for Oliver Cromwell's reputation to be re-evaluated in, say, Drogheda or Wexford, but it seems like some citizens in Coleraine hold him in great esteem.
Sinn Fein's Billy Leonard claims that at this week's Coleraine Council meeting the DUP's Samuel Cole insisted that democracy had to be defended as it had been fought for and won by Oliver Cromwell.
Under the banner of "to hell or Coleraine", Councillor Leonard claims Councillor's Cole's regard for "the man who murdered his way around Ireland" is "bizarre". He adds that Councillor Cole " has the unfortunate knack of trying to wax lyrical for long periods and winds his way effortlessly into bland nonsense which he thinks is quite intellectual." Ouch.
"Old Ironsides" may have been a republican, but that will never endear him to Sinn Fein.
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