``This sort of thing is not helpful...''
Three weeks ago, when this newspaper reported Owen Paterson's strongly pro-Union Steinberg Lecture, Martin McGuinness caught up with the secretary of state in a corridor, held up a copy of the News Letter front page, and chided him that ``this sort of thing is not helpful''.
``Whether or not you are in favor of what they are trying to do,'' she explained, ``they are not good at what they are trying to do....