IRA/McCartney UpdateCaptain Ed has a
great post on Gerry Adams' recent statement that the IRA should consider laying down its weapons.
If Adams and Sinn Féin want to get taken seriously as peace partners, they need to start by turning over the murderers of Robert McCartney and James MacGinley, as well as those who threatened witnesses to both crimes, and return the money stolen in the bank heist. Otherwise they will remain nothing but apologists for loathsome thugs who increasingly appear to love the petty power they've created through the muzzle of their guns in the neighborhoods they claim to represent.Slugger O'Toole
would remind him that although the IRA is widely suspected in the bank robbery, nothing has been proven definitively on that score.