Diversionary tactics of McGuinness’s critics

IT SEEMS from the letters of Eamon Reilly and Brendan Cafferty (March 19) there’s a new policy that “if you can’t stop the message getting out, try to undermine it by attacking the messenger”.

Such seemed to be the case in relation to the recent calls for Cardinal Brady to resign and in particular in relation to one such call made by the North’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness.

That these two correspondents would try to divert attention from the real issue by focusing on Mr McGuinness’s past shows how far out of touch they are in relation to public opinion on this matter. It was so similar to Msgr Maurice Dooley’s recent comments that abuse has been around for hundreds of years in families and so the church shouldn’t be singled out.