Bridges of understanding

In a stirring, spellbinding performance, Sands also delivered on those songs’ promise of inclusion and tolerance by inviting three politicians of different viewpoints to come up and sing.
So when Christopher McGimpsey, the Belfast City councilor representing Loyalist West Belfast and member of the Ulster Unionist Party for a quarter century, sang a song of Orange sentiments before the large luncheon crowd, no dissenting murmurs were heard.
The same held true when David Irvine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, sang on stage. He brought a fragile tenderness to his singing, and that emotion was also coursing through “Se Fath Mo Bhuartha” (“The Cause of My Sorrow”), a song in Irish from Br