Disbandment of paramilitary organisations

LISTENING to Gerry Adams at the weekend and Mitchell McLoughlin on RTÉ's Q&A last Monday brought my mind back to the heady days of the Good Friday Agreement and the consequent referendum.

Disbandment of paramilitary organisations

Like the vast majority of the plain people of Ireland, I did not have time to study the agreement in full, not to mind understanding all the technical jargon. I voted in favour of it because Messrs Blair, Ahern and their cohorts told us it meant decommissioning of paramilitary arms, the disbandment of paramilitary organisations and a return to constitutional government.

Now, Sinn Féin seek admiration for having a cessation of gunfire for 10 years. Who started the gunfire? Who cost the people of both states vast sums of taxation to pay for security?

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