Ahern’s appeasement a threat to democracy

GIVEN the Government’s response to the most recent crisis in the peace process, I’m not surprised Sinn Féin/IRA has lost little electoral support.

Having agreed to the establishment of the Independent Monitoring Commission, the Taoiseach then undermined its report on republican criminal activity by saying in advance he was opposed to any sanctions on Sinn Féin .

Then the Taoiseach said he was also opposed to the return of a power-sharing executive in the North if Sinn Fein/IRA were excluded; this after the murder of Robert McCartney.