Any of us who get through this life without being, at one stage or another, susceptible to a charge of hypocrisy is indeed one of a sainted minority.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has launched a blistering attack on what she called the “utterly repulsive” media in the Republic over the treatment of the late Martin McGuinness during the 2011 presidential election.

HAVE your editorial writers read ‘1984’ and are they busy modelling themselves on the manipulators of truth in George Orwell’s dystopian novel?