SF politicians may look to the future, but we cannot forget the dark past

IT’S Tuesday of this week and I’m driving my child home thinking there’s a strange silence about Gerry Adams’s arrest and I want to break it but I don’t know how.

Then Ann Travers comes on Joe Duffy’s Liveline and helps me out by speaking of the murder of her sister Mary by the IRA: “How can I say that Mary’s life is worth less now than it was 30 years ago? That her murder is no longer a murder but some kind of bargaining tool in the peace process?”

That’s what we’re being asked to do. And we’re being asked to downgrade Jean Mc Conville’s death from murder to what it is called in dissident Republican Brendan Hughes’s Boston tape: “execution”.