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An ambitious politician with a four-year gap in his CV, Peter Lyons, Minister of Justice, has his eye on the job of First Minister. Throughout his career he and Gerry Conway have had a mutually worthwhile connection – support in exchange for exclusives on stories has been an unwritten but accepted arrangement. Only this time Gerry has been handed what looks like a very different story – the Minister in company of the least savoury of the defenders of the Protestant faith in Belfast; the UVF hierarchy.
Tracing the Minister’s background among the Scottish Orange Order community is more of a hazard than he could have imagined – on some occasions even having a Catholic surname is enough to open the floodgates of hatred. He is left in no doubt as to Peter Lyons’ Orange Order roots or the need to uncover what he was doing in Belfast.