The columnist as a fellow traveller

DANNY MORRISON’S piece entitled ‘Republicans no dunces in a land of slow learners’ (Irish Examiner, June 21) is an unworthy ex post facto justification for years of IRA murder and mayhem during which thousands died and tens of thousands of lives were ruined.

He makes snide remarks about the SDLP's efforts on Sunningdale.

The SDLP members of the Northern Ireland executive were decent, upright and straight-talking people doing what they could to address internment and other issues.