Readers' Blog: Sinn Féin try to erase IRA’s history of murder

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.

O’Callaghan’s interviewing of McGuinness was extremely unsatisfactory. Here was a high ranking ex-Provo going for the Irish presidency, and yet instead of being rigorously questioned about his sinister past, he was asked only one pertinent question by O’Callaghan. 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.