Non-sectarian killings theory challenged

IN his letter headlined ‘Sectarian killings in South were nowhere near those in North (Irish Examiner, July 17), Niall Meehan says the “unjustifiable killings broke the terms of the Truce and they were immediately condemned by all sections of republican opinion”.

Does he mean they were unauthorised?

He also says “the killings had a political, not sectarian, motive” — just that those killed happened to be Protestant. Witness the case of Fr Shinnock and Mrs Lindsay.