No alternative to Peace Process

I was the main speaker at the Sinn Féin Commemoration for Seán South in Limerick City on Jan 6.

Firstly, let me correct your editorial of Jan 8 where you state that Seán South and Fearghal O’Hanlon “blew themselves up in a bombing raid”. In fact these two men died from gunshot wounds they received when they took part in the IRA raid on Brookeborough RUC barracks in Co Fermanagh in 1957.

Unfortunately, in the media, the well attended Sinn Féin commemoration was overshadowed by the other event which you reported, and at which threats were issued. While this was newsworthy to an extent, I believe that the media, including your own, have blown the antics of a tiny splinter group out of all proportion. In doing so, you have also omitted the Sinn Féin event and, in your editorial, misrepresented our position.