DUP ex-Minister: ‘Only nut jobs and ardent nationalists on Twitter’ wanted to close schools as Covid advanced
WhatsApp messages during Covid involving DUP ministers were published yesterday
Only “nut jobs and ardent nationalists on Twitter” felt schools should close as Covid-19 made its first advance in NI during March 2020, former Education Minister Peter Weir told Executive colleagues at the time.
The comment was included in a transcript of a WhatsApp group involving Mr Weir, along with DUP Executive colleagues Emma Little-Pengelly, Gordon Lyons and Edwin Poots.
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