The recent coverage of Jude Collins’ book on Martin McGuinness and Mary Lou MacDonald’s criticism of RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan during the presidential election highlight the brazen and ongoing attempts by Sinn Féin to downplay the activities of their paramilitary wing, the Provisional IRA. McGuinness then intimidated O’Callaghan into not asking any more relevant questions about his PIRA activities. Mary Lou MacDonald’s brazen arrogance and indignation at O’Callaghan’s attempted questioning of McGuinness reveal an utter hypocrisy about Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA’s terror campaign. People need to be reminded of the true nature of Sinn Féin and of the sort of people that characterises its ranks. Looking to the future must never mean erasing the past, however inconvenient a truth it is for Mary Lou MacDonald and Sinn Fein.

Source: Irish Examiner March 29, 2018 23:03 UTC