Republicans should be able to fund their own pensions

I am very sorry to hear that Sinn Fein, and Gerry Kelly in particular, are disgruntled that terrorists injured by their own actions are not in line for a victims’ pension.

It is certainly a sign of a topsy-turvy world that injured terrorists demand a pension from the very state they attacked.

But all is not lost for republican terrorists in particular, after all they walked out of the Northern Bank with £26 million.

Surely they could fund IRA pensions themselves? Also, Sinn Fein recently received a couple of million quid as beneficiaries in a will.

If however this has all been squandered republicans could always tap their Irish-American fund raising buddies, who were all too willing to fund and send Irish freedom fighters into battle.

Maybe now they should pay for the consequences of it.

Gordon Stewart, Belfast BT4

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