McGuinness has every right to criticise Brady

SHOULDN’T we spend more time talking about the child abusers and their wrongs rather than trying to politicise the incident by rehashing old IRA stories (Irish Examiner, March 19).

Does it matter if Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA more than 20 years ago – or two years ago?

Does it matter that Martin McGuinness was a member of the IRA fighting a foreign aggressor or that Cardinal Brady was following then accepted church policy when it came to wayward priests? While the pot may be calling the kettle black, as a Catholic McGuinness has every right to criticise Cardinal Brady and if the cardinal grievously violated church policy, then maybe he should be criticised.