Ryle’s ramblings an insult to the plain people of Ireland

LIKE George Galloway, we can salute the “courage, strength and indefatigability” of our favourite tyrant without handing them our first-born for immolation.

But Ryle Dwyer doesn’t seem to have grasped that particular nettle yet (Irish Examiner, May 3.

Whether it’s the IRA, old unionism, Le Duc Tho or Saddam Hussein, there’s a world of difference between mouthing platitudes, while waving the flag of hatred, and representative government which allows itself to be voted out of office every once in a while (the party, that is, and not the whole kit and caboodle of democracy).