Gardaí on notice: Paramilitary funeral affront

THE deliberate and provocative display of paramilitarism at the September 2012 funeral of the gangster and protection racket thug Alan Ryan was a carefully orchestrated affront to this democracy. 

It was contrived to show the brutal criminal as a good republican who was murdered because he tried to defend his community against drug gangs. It was a propaganda fraud from beginning to end.

The truth is that Ryan was as much a criminal as those who had him murdered. His murder allowed his puppet masters to use his funeral to try to aggrandise their immoral, pathetic cause — the dangerous fantasy described as dissident republicanism.