A chara, - Many right-wing political and media critics have been cynically trying to link the deliberate killing of innocent people in the US with Irish republicans to try to put pressure on Sinn FΘin and halt the increase in its support. However, not one of them noticed that those well co-ordinated, accurately timed, multiple attacks against uninvolved civilians were most reminiscent of the Dublin/Monaghan Bombings of 1974, which were also an attempt to kill as many innocent civilians as possible.
Isn't it strange that not one of the many "objective" commentators trying to make Irish links with the US atrocities failed to see the most obvious comparison? .
For many years, the families of the Dublin/Monaghan victims have been trying to find out who was really behind this massacre for which there have been no convictions, no charges, not even a single arrest. But the British Government has failed to provide information to the Barron Inquiry into the bombings, strengthening the relatives' belief that there was British Intelligence involvement.
Maybe that explains why the worst mass murder in the history of the Irish State is still the forgotten massacre. - Is mise,
Cllr Dessie Ellis, Dunsink Road, Finglas, Dublin 11.