Sinn Féin has never sought to hide its relationship with the IRA but it has attracted little media commentThe account of his career by Irish Times Northern Editor Gerry Moriarty is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the inextricable links between Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA. Sinn Féin was the mouthpiece for the IRA during the long years of violence and it continues to fulfil that role. Over the past decade or more, Bobby Storey and other IRA leaders from Belfast became a fixture around Leinster House. The Bobby Storey funeral is another reminder not simply that the IRA has not gone away but that its army council is the ruling body of Sinn Féin. Clearly some voters have no problem with that but the episode should alert the wider electorate to what a vote for Sinn Féin actually means.

Source: The Irish Times July 03, 2020 00:00 UTC