SF is not the only party with its roots in violence

HUGH SHEEHY (Irish Examiner letters, December 29) claimed to speak for most Irish people when he stated I and other republicans had no right to speak out about human rights abuses.

Throughout his letter, he used such partial terms as “prolonged periods of nausea”, “high levels of cynicism” and “new bedfellows”.

One could see such terms coming straight out of the old Michael McDowell textbook of Irish political fiction.