27 5t

niversary An Y

r ea

Price: 75p (Ir 1.05 eUro) Friday, September 28, 2012

The pride of Northern Ireland

www.newsletter.co.uk

Since 1737

32
Plus FREE
glossy poster

INSIDE TODAY
pages marking Covenant
The Party of

Carson & Craig

A century later, were still British

BY STAFF reporTerS
newsdesk@newsletter.co.uk

INSIDe

A CENTURY ago today, Ulster Day 1912, Sir Edward Carson became the first of 471,414 to sign a Covenant which bound them to defend their Provinces position within the Union. Reporting the momentous

occasion in 1912, the News Letter noted how the throbbing machinery of industrial Belfast fell into a silence akin to that of the Sabbath as vast crowds assembled to sign the Ulster Covenant. Though their vision of Ireland united under the Crown was not realised, the city where that

famous first mass signing took place remains securely British. In todays News Letter we remember a Covenant which played a key role in the creation of Northern Ireland, when for religious, political, economic and social reasons Ulster men and women opposed Home Rule. Writing in todays News Letter,

First Minister Peter Robinson says of the Home Rule threat: Let nobody tell you they were not justified in resisting such tyranny. And, ahead of tomorrows Covenant parade, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt urges a peaceful and dignified celebration that Carson and Craig would be proud of. See pages 4-7

GMac and Rory set sights on the Ryder Cup

See Sport