Speaking to the Starry Plough, an IRSP spokesperson for the Armagh Cumann said: "People still seem to live in pretence, and this is not exclusive to Armagh. Communities still pretend serious issues such as sectarianism, racism, underage drinking, alcoholism, drug dealing do not exist.

“In discussing these issues directly with people on the ground some unfortunately still hide from the realities facing us across the sectarian and racial divide. Many feel that these problems will simply go away or reject the fact that they even exist. Sadly some even feel these vices are now normal.

"By debating these issued our party is prepared to take a stand against those who seek to undermined community solidarity such as the drug dealers and sectarian and racist attitudes in Armagh. We have all got to openly speak out against them. In Armagh we have a council who are much more interested in investing our money into museums and historical and archaeological sites than working on real issues within our divided communities.

"Why won't the politicians come clean, accept there are urgent problems and face them? People ask why thousands of people leave work early; go without their lunch just to vote in the local council elections on the 7th of May just to have elected representatives ignore and refuse to work for us thereafter?

"Within the last three or four years we have seen an increase in migrant workers to the county. There isn't a week that goes by without hearing of yet another attack on migrant workers and their families. Our brothers and sisters from Lithuania, from Latvia and from Poland are being set upon for no reason other than their nationality. Asian families are being attacked verbally and physically simply for the colour of their skin. But what resources are being put in place to challenge this, nothing from our elected officials in city hall.

The IRSP spokesperson stated: "We need to embrace migrant workers and help integration of our communitys flow more freely. As a class we also take a stand to unite and put the pressure on council to address the issues involved here but ultimately we need a positive grassroots community response before lives are lost."

Congratulations to the Hamill family from Portadown on securing a collusion inquiry(similar to that of Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson, both murdered solicitors) into the brutal murder of their son, brother and father Robert. All the best with it, its about time.