Where was morality in shooting dead of elderly woman?

IN his letter headlined ‘Religion had nothing to do with struggle for independence’ (Irish Examiner, July 31), Pádraig Ó Cuanacháin takes me to task for suggesting that the killing of Mrs Lindsay and the sparing of Fr Shinnick was a sectarian response to their roles in trying to avert the Dripsey ambush in Co Cork and going to their relevant ‘sides’ in order to so do.

The facts speak for themselves. Maybe Mr Ó Cuanacháin might care to comment on the unlawful killing also of Mrs Lindsay’s employee, James Clarke, a Protestant.

If, as Mr Ó Cuanacháin suggests, there was an offer to spare Mrs Lindsay, it only aggravates the position. He also makes the Freudian slip of comparing the situation to the French resistance and the Germans — the latter gallant allies of those who perhaps executed Mrs Lindsay. Birds of a feather.