A chara, - From a media studies point of view, I think your Editorial of June 7th made for interesting study. "A Continuum of Pain", commenting on the awful killing of Mrs Elizabeth O'Neill, swung immediately to the search for remains of people killed by the IRA a quarter of a century ago.
The predictable thrust of the Editorial emerges when Mr Des O'Malley of the PDs is brought forefront in encouraging people not to vote for Sinn Fein in Friday's elections.
So, after one sentence dealing with the brutal killing by loyalists (preceded by over 150 loyalist attacks in the past year), we move to the usual anti-Sinn Fein stance. No analysis of the "respectable people" who deliberately prolong the agony in the North by (a) not abiding by the Parades Commission's decisions; (b) not abiding by the Good Friday Agreement; (c) most recently not even considering proposals put by Mr Frank Blair, appointed by the British Government to defuse the Drumcree situation.
For the most part Sinn Fein represents "ordinary" people not having easy access to the media - unlike the PDs! Your Editorial smugly represents the well-off, North and South. Any decent cause-and-effect argument is sidelined for the sake of another cheap shot at working-class nationalists.
I put it to you that your Editorial shows a clear bias which unashamedly uses suffering to score a political point. - Is mise,
Mike Mac Domhnaill, Gortbui, Caislean Nua Thiar, Co Luimnigh.