Anyone with a conscience should not vote SF

ONE of the most disturbing and despicable aspects of the present general campaign is the total moral and intellectual cowardice of the media, politicians and the various churches with regard to Sinn Féin.

This party’s private army murdered more than 1,800 people and carried a wave of savage massacres on the most innocent of people. It was also involved in widespread intimidation, extortion rackets, bank robberies and other criminal activities.

In this context, Gerry Adams has been the chief spokesman and apologist for the PIRA for many years and it would be absolutely disgraceful if such a person were to be voted into Dáil Eireann by Louth people. The chilling silence from politicians and the media when faced with Sinn Féin’s airbrushing of recent history is shocking.

Louth people in particular should recall the brutal torture and murder of the farmer Tom Oliver in 1991 by PIRA thugs on the Cooley Peninsula. They should consider the dumped body of Jean McConville – found on a Louth beach years after her sinister abduction and murder by a large gang of PIRA cowards in 1972.

Anyone with a scrap of decency or conscience should not vote for Adams or any other Sinn Féin candidate.

Anthony Hartnett

Bishopstown

Cork