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Dublin's Double Standards Over On-The-Runs
An immensely detailed UTV news story reports that the IRA killers of Irish police officer Garda Gerry McCabe will not be granted amnesty under the terms of the legislation being passed in Westminster and in Dublin to allow on-the-run terrorists to return home without fear of prosecution.
If this turns out to be true it's an absolute disgrace and illustrates exactly the sort of double standards the government of the Republic are happy to impose regarding terrorists. It also illustrates the contempt with which they really view the British population of Northern Ireland.
Follow up:
While the Fianna Fail government in Dublin were (and are?) trying to pressurise Unionists into entering a government in Northern Ireland with Sinn Fein, they simulatneously rule out any prospect of sharing power with Sinn Fein in the Republic. Now we hear that the Dublin Government is perfectly happy if killers of RUC/PSNI officers are allowed to return home (after all their victims don't count) but an Irishman's life is obviously worth more.
Illustration were it needed that an all-island state (with or without Sinn Fein) will never be "An Ireland of Equals."