Sinn Féin, as ever, want to have everything both ways

IF IT really was a “war” in the North as Gerry Adams claims, then where were the rules of war?

Sinn Féin, as ever, want to have everything both ways

Why did the IRA men shoot chief superintendent Harry Breen in the back of his head despite the fact he was waving a white handkerchief in a desperate act of surrender? Is that not the epitome of a shoot-to-kill policy?

But, as ever, Sinn Féin want to have everything both ways. Sure, they say, wasn’t it just the heroic manifestation of the legend of 1916?

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