Anti-garda rhetoric a hallmark of Sinn Féin

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, November 16) about the Shell to Sea campaign in Co Mayo, Kieran McCarthy conveniently neglected to mention the fact that he is a Sinn Féin councillor.

But it was not difficult to guess his political affiliation, as he prattled off the anti-garda rhetoric which has been the hallmark of Sinn Féin’s hijacking of this issue.

He compares the Shell to Sea protesters to the Northern Ireland civil rights protesters in the 1960s. Isn’t it ironic then that while the civil rights movement campaigned for an equal right to employment for all citizens, the Shell to Sea protesters are attempting to deny the Bellanaboy workers their right to work on the Shell site? One would have expected Mr McCarthy to notice this glaring contradiction.