Stop pandering to bigots and criminals
As we were later reminded by a gloating Mr Paisley, the Taoiseach grovelled for a full nine minutes to that unreconstructed sectarian bigot.
This was a complete humiliation in itself, but now it is compounded by the revelation that SF-IRA were responsible for the Northern Bank robbery, thus exposing Mr Ahern’s naivety in granting virtually all SF-IRA demands, such as the early release of the Det Gda Jerry McCabe’s killers despite repeated solemn commitments never to do so.