Oct 27, 2009
Irish News letters page, 27 October 2009
An honest answer
Irish News letters page
GEAROID O TOHMRAIR Beal Feirste 12
27/10/09
I SEE that Richard O’Rawe is again peddling rubbish (October 22) about a deal on the Hunger Strike that the British government had apparently sent to Brendan Duddy and – according to Richard – was passed to Gerry Adams and rejected by the republican leadership on the outside who were running the strike.
As far as I and the majority of republicans are aware, it was the prisoners and the gaol leadership who were in control of the blanket protest and the Hunger Strike.
Bernard Fox (same edition) is a republican who disagrees with the current direction Sinn Fein has taken.
It would have been easy for him to have muddied the waters a bit or to have said nothing.
But Bernard is an honest and honourable man and I believe him because he has nothing to gain.
Reliability
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Patrick J Corr Pittsburgh PA, USA
27/10/09
Reading about the inability of Gerry Adams to deal with the offer to the 1981 hunger strikers that would have ended the protest at an earlier stage, I believe Mgr Dennis Faul’s lesson to me, as a student at St Patrick’s Academy in Dungannon, on the reliability of republican leaders, has been fully vindicated.