Chris Moore

And I would meet Craig.

as well independently, sometimes in the back room of bars on the Shankill.

That's exactly what they wanted to make sure that their spin was put on whatever stories we were doing.

And I would ask questions and they would sometimes refuse to answer.

And I ask questions quite often about the policy of, you know, for example, of targeting innocent Catholic people who were walking along a street in a Catholic church and they find themselves being the target of gunmen or thugs with collegials.

So that happened.

They didn't answer those questions, not a direct way.

The person who did

eventually answer that question was uh billy wright after the ceasefires in 1994 he explained that that the uvf believed it was their policy of attaching catholics in catholic areas which brought the ira to the negotiating table because it was proof that they could not protect catholics and and they honestly believed that that was one of the reasons

We all now know, of course, that there was another reason, and that was the penetration of the IRA by the British Secret Services.

I know that some of my work colleagues were the political correspondents, and they were easily excited, in my opinion, about developments here.

I didn't see politics through anything other than suspicious eyes.

Yeah.

I believe that people often used to say to me, you know our politicians, they're colour coded.

There's orange and there's green and there's nothing in between.

There's no debate like you have in the South when there's a political election.

There's debate about bread and butter issues and

You know, council taxes and water charges and all of those things that make up the body of politics.

We didn't have that.

We had orange and green, basically.