Political bias must not be allowed to undermine Cahill allegations

“Once mighty priests and Provos, powerful men peddling sacred myths in the exercise of squalid and petty power, were brought low by women who could not be terrorised and silenced.”

Gerard Howlin (Opinion, October 22) takes no prisoners in his full-frontal broadside on Gerry Adams and Co... However, he proffers predominantly only nominal nuance and appraisal, on what is something of a much, much broader, deeper, and more complex archival mosaic.

It is, of course, civilised and morally apposite to investigate and then offer support to people with allegations of rape and alleged cover-up, etc. No balanced empathetic spirit could deny such attention to a worthy case. However the deeper extrapolations and interpretations when couched in polemic á la Howlin, lose credibility as they are trenchantly biased from the off.