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SOMETIMES people seem to regard their old arguments rather like family heirlooms. They treasure them and polish them even though the world has moved on. Something like that seems to have been behind the curious events in Carfin, a Lanarkshire village, over the past few days.
The controversy began when Bertie Ahern, the Irish taoiseach (Prime Minister), cancelled a visit he was due to make to Carfin on February 11th to unveil a memorial to Irish immigrants fleeing the Irish famine of the 1840s. It turned out that the local MP, Frank Roy, had advised the taoiseach to stay away as his presence might have provoked sectarian violence in the wake of the "old firm derby" (a football match) between Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers. In the past this match has resulted in violence, as Scotland's two biggest football clubs stand proxy for the local Catholic and Protestant populations.
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