Unholy Alliance
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Guess to whom the Irish Christian Brothers, aggressively Catholic guardians of the native culture, language and heritage, sold their old Oxford Street Primary School for use as a political party headquarters? To those darling new sons of Mother" church, the Green Tory bourgeois S.D.L.P. or some such craw-thumping R.C. body? Not on your Bishop Philbin!
Instead it went to the right-wing Alliance Party, the offspring of Green-Orange bourgeois intercourse, for the knock-down sum of £12,000. It will cost the wealthy Alliance members £14,750 to convert and furnish it. The God of Mamon knows no political barriers.
The Christian Brothers tried to keep the deal as quiet as possible. The pietistic "Irish News" did not even mention their name in connection with the sale, and the pussyfooting ''Belfast Telegraph" vaguely referred to "an old Belfast Schoolhouse". The unaccomodating "Irish Times" mentioned the Christian Brothers' arrangement with the wealthy exploiters.
Does it seem more important to this powerful Order within the Catholic Church to house a political party than house a youth-centre or old people's club or even the temporary homeless? But then, where would such people get the money to buy anything? Just another example of the Alliance of Church and State to keep the little man in his proper place - at the bottom of the