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).

And this world of reality, as distinct from the world of fantasy, is no more free from trials and error than the rarified world of religious institutions, no matter how much they would like to be infallibly right.

And if Ryle Dwyer thinks that the IRA (cum Sinn Féin) was being anything other than disingenuous in calling for open plan democracy, with its concomitant blueprints and roadmaps, while brainwashing us with the ramblings of chairman P O’Neill, then he must think awfully little of the plain people of Ireland.

Richard Dowling,

Coote Street,

Mountrath,

Co Laois.