It isn’t McGuinness who represents a threat

IRISH history did not begin in 1969.

The day that Fine Gael supporters openly disassociate themselves from the terrorism of Michael Collins is the day their protestations about IRA terrorism during the conflict in Northern Ireland can be taken seriously.

By any reckoning, the Fine Gael hero was a ruthless killer who relied on an identical rationale for his crimes. Would any of their victims make a distinction? For Fine Gael to play this sort of politics with the newly forged peace in Ireland to discredit a presidential rival to their own candidate is hypocritical.