Sep 16, 2009
Irish News letters page: (S)he who paid the piper
(S)he who paid the piper
Irish News letters page
Manus McDaid, Derry
16/09/09
SAM Greer of Belfast asks ‘Who killed the hunger strikers?’ (August 28).
Mr Greer says: “It is common knowledge that six lives [of the hunger strikers] could have been spared in a deal offered by the British”.
I, as a life-long republican, never heard of this.
Britain double-crossed the first hunger strike, I know.
And, when Bobby Sands died on the second hunger strike, Britain’s premier said he was a terrorist convict and chose to take his own life.
The people of Cappagh know better now – you either accept the integrity of the hunger strikers or you don’t.
Mr Greer asks ‘What was it all about?’ – What planet has he been on for the last 50 years?
It has withstood the blows of a million years, and will do so to the end.