FF and SF forma ‘sinister’ relationship
Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern opened the door to both parties entering government in the not to distant future; on budget day the Taoiseach used IRA terminology such as “volunteer“, “GHQ,” and “army council” in the Dáil chamber.
Subsequently, we learned that the Government had agreed that Jerry McCabe’s cold-blooded and vicious killers would be released early from already massively reduced sentences if the IRA decommissioned.
Recently we had the Taoiseach doing the bidding of Sinn Féin by cosying up to Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams on the steps of the Taoiseach’s Dublin constituency office where he said the Government no longer required photographic verification of the total decommissioning that was supposed to have been completed four years ago.
When three Irish ‘republicans’ were initially found guilty of travelling on false passports in Colombia, SF asked our Government to stump up the $17,000 bail money after that party decided not to pay the resultant fine, precipitating the Colombian attorney general’s decision to appeal the case to a higher court.
Despite Sinn Féin being the wealthiest political party on this island, our sovereign Government paid this now outstanding bail money.
This action on the part of the Government gave, at one remove, official support to the trio currently on the run in Colombia.
Bertie Ahern has mooted a referendum on whether or not to allow Northerners to become senators.
Perhaps we should be asked also whether we agree with IRA/Sinn Féin criminals serving their full sentences, be they in Castlerea or Colombia.
Eoin McMahon
Northumberland Road
Dublin 4
