Sir, - We have recently been subjected to the following:
Caoimhgh∅n ╙ Caolβin TD telling us that Sinn FΘin "is wedded to the peace process", while Ms Michelle Gildernew MP says the war is over "for now" and the IRA reserves the right to revert to violence in the future; former members of "anti-drugs" Sinn FΘin allegedly providing weapons training for drug suppliers in Colombia; Sinn FΘin repeatedly telling us IRA guns are silent when it is simultaneously reported that the IRA have murdered at least eight alleged drug-dealers over the past year-and-a-half; the IRA supposedly being willing to decommission while, according to reports, stealing a substantial number of ballistically untraceable shotguns, not to mention getting caught smuggling guns from the US.
The attitude seems to be that you can say and do whatever you like as long as you don't get caught.
It is time the fudging stopped. Sinn FΘin and the IRA are either totally committed to peace and democracy or they are not.- Yours, etc.,
Peter Fitzgerald, Arran Quay, Dublin 7.