Audio interview with Brian Rowan (security journalist), Mervyn Jones (Alliance Party Victoria councillor on Belfast City Council) and Robin Newton (DUP MLA for Belfast East) by Enda McClafferty for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 23 September 2013. Earlier that month an East Belfast mural of George Best, created using European Union funding as part of a regeneration project, was painted over with an image of a UVF gunman despite criticism from some within the local community. In this interview Rowan, Jones and Newton discuss the political undertones of this action and wider unionist dissatisfaction with the political status quo in Northern Ireland. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 23 September 2013
Name of First Interviewee: Brian Rowan
Name of Second Interviewee: Mervyn Jones
Name of Third Interviewee: Robin Newton
Role at time of Interview: Brian Rowan (security journalist), Mervyn Jones (Alliance Party councillor for Victoria on Belfast City Council), Robin Newton (DUP MLA for Belfast East)
Interviewer: Enda McClafferty
Purpose: News
Media: Audio
Copyright: BBC © 2013
Link: Listen to the interview
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show
Time Period covered: 2013
Key Individuals: Brian Rowan, Mervyn Jones, Robin Newton, John Kyle, Billy Hutchinson
Key Words: UVF, PUP, culture, paramilitary, politicisation, dissident republican, Haass talks