The anniversary of the News Letter bomb reminds me of treacherous deal with Sinn Fein

Your leading article yesterday (‘A terrorist attack which failed to silence this newspaper,’ March 21, see link below), recalling the IRA bomb which murdered seven people, including two policemen, outside the offices of your newspaper in 1972, brings back many sad memories of those horrific times.

To think that the political ‘heirs’ of the perpetrators of that crime and hundreds like it, now sit as dictators in Stormont as the result of the despicable and treacherous political deal agreed to between the DUP and Sinn Fein/IRA back in 2007, still vexes and grieves me and is very hard to bear when such memories are evoked!

What a betrayal of the many, many innocent victims of IRA terrorism that ‘power-sharing’ deal was.

Sinn Fein can publicly go through a ritual of ‘apologising’ for crimes against children which they did not commit but refuse to apologise for the wicked crimes of which republicans are truly guilty!

And then to read the words of condemnation of DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson in your article rings hollow. He says that it “reminds us of the savagery and indiscriminate nature of the republican terror campaign”.

It ought to do more than that. It ought to smite his conscience and cause him to realise what a wicked arrangement he and his party are involved in and stir him to break that arrangement forthwith with due apologies to the unionism it betrayed.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd), Kilskeery

Editorial: A 1972 terrorist attack which failed to silence this newspaper

News Letter marks 50th anniversary of attack on its office building that claimed seven lives

Victims’ group: There has been no justice, accountability or truth over the atrocity in Donegall Street in 1972

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