Letter: Sinn Fein have played policing like a cat and mouse

A letter from Gareth Burns:
Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill and president Mary Lou McDonald. Ms McDonald ​had said no-one in NI was suitable as chief constable. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEyeSinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill and president Mary Lou McDonald. Ms McDonald ​had said no-one in NI was suitable as chief constable. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye
Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill and president Mary Lou McDonald. Ms McDonald ​had said no-one in NI was suitable as chief constable. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye
By Letters
Published 4th Sep 2023, 18:52 BST
Updated 4th Sep 2023, 18:53 BST

It never felt right four and a half years ago when we were told by Mary Lou McDonald from Dublin, with no mandate up here, that there was nobody suitable in Northern Ireland to be chief constable.

The hens have come home to roost.

Ironically she was addressing civic unionism at Queen’s University later that day and had visited the Sean Graham families (no disrespect to them) earlier that day. I was in the audience facing her.

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Sinn Fein has played policing and justice like a cat with a mouse ever since then, veering away from the St. Andrew’s Agreement when not signing a joint leaders’ letter to do with the removal of Prison Service recruitment posters.

Gareth Burns, Co Down

Related topics:Sinn FeinMary Lou McDonaldNorthern Ireland