Gerry Adams has demolished Bruton’s nonsense

Gerry Adams has demolished the nonsense spouted by John Bruton.

The Irish electorate in 1918, contemporaries of John Redmond and John Dillon, consigned their party to the dustbin of history.

Even Dillon, who in 1918, in a letter to CP Scott of The Manchester Guardian, maintained that his election defeat in Mayo by de Valera was accomplished by armed republicans drafted in from Clare, in 1921 conceded that his party was as dead as Monty Python’s parrot and fielded no candidates in constituencies won by in the subsequent general election.