Prejudice and bile against Adams

By any standards the relentless personalised attacks on Sinn Féin, and in particular its leader Gerry Adams, regarding the killings of prison officer Brian Stack in 1983 and Jean McConville in 1972, and the alleged rape of Mairia Cahill in 1997, are bitter and incorrigible attacks on democracy.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Dec 2016, 10:24 BST
Updated 14th Dec 2016, 13:36 BST

The latest aspiring politician to carry the rope for the lynch mob is Gerard McDonald, SDLP vice chair, Belfast (Adams denies truth and justice to the Stack family, December 10th).

The sheer level of malice, prejudice and political bile which has been hurled at Mr Adams in regard to these issues, enthusiastically peddled in the political arena, go far beyond accepted parliamentary discourse.

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Whereas I unequivocally support demands from the families of all these victims for justice and their right to speak wherever they choose, the alacrity with which some politicians and political parties have exploited these horrific crimes, while ignoring other appalling killings, leaves me with the impression that these events are being played out for their full political value.

There appears to be a steely determination by opponents of Sinn Féin in both Dáil Éireann and Stormont to form a cross party consensus to create a political atmosphere where Sinn Fein is rendered politically toxic and impotent.

Opponents of Sinn Féin seems to have forgotten something about the electorate. We may be sometimes gullible, but we are not all stupid.

Tom Cooper, Dublin

Related topics:Mairia CahillBelfastSDLP