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Kevin
Myers is a scoundrel. His rascality knows no bounds.
And his journalistic methods are devoid of any professional
ethics not to mention human decency. For long he has
waged a personalised and spiteful campaign against
republican peace activist Danny Morrison, not even
acknowledging the leading non-Sinn Fein member’s
right to complain about the breakfast service on the
Belfast Dublin Enterprise. Not only was Danny deprived
of a morning meal about which he correctly complained
to the papers, the disreputable Myers then subjected
him to a vile line of questioning about the type of
hearty breakfast that Sandy Lynch of the pressure
group Informing For Peace received when allegedly
in the company of Danny against his will. There was
no mention by Myers of the possibility that both men
could have been in the area at the time on separate
peace missions and that occasionally those in the
same line of work do happen, due to proximity, to
bump off each other in the street or pass a sentence
or two.
Danny
in turn has not taken any of this lying down and furiously
disputes the claims of those out to undermine the
peace process that he was lying standing up. He has
called the unpardonable Myers to account on many occasions.
At one point so fed up with Myers continuously glorifying
the dead of British regiments Danny said that the
Anglophile author of ‘An Irishman’s Diary’
in the Irish Times must have known the names of every
dead British soldier and very little about republican
dead.
Myers
obviously stung by the comments only this week resorted
to underhand methods the likes of which we have come
to expect from John Ware either with the scandalous
Panorama or some other mischievous network. Republicans
don’t easily forget that Ware was given a scurrilous
award in 1983 for his appalling Gerry Adams focussed
documentary The Honourable Member for West Belfast.
So preposterous were its contents, and malicious its
allegations against the only civilian ever to be O/C
of Cage 11 that almost to a body the republican family
swore never to believe a word that the dastardly blackguard
uttered again. What else could be expected from a
former reporter with the Sun? Even Liverpudlians won’t
buy that paper. Consequently, the name of Ware has
been added to a long list of journalists never to
be read again, a list that is consistently updated.
Anyway,
Myers, ever ready to question the authenticity of
republicans who have devoted their entire lives to
peace, and by nurturing a little of the devious Ware’s
liking for subterfuge, penned an article in the Andersonstown
Republican News using Danny’s name. Armed with
one of Danny’s 13 new electoral identity cards
to gain entry to the offices of the West Belfast paper
he, virus like, burrowed his way into the ‘As
I See It’ column and started his old antics of
praising dead Brits just to create the false impression
that it was Danny who was doing this. He wholly took
everything out of context and made no reference to
the fact that Danny always thought dead Brits were
a good thing.
Shame
on you Kevin Myers. Write honestly and consistently
like Danny or not at all. And if you want to be an
apologist for dead Brits use your own name rather
than Danny’s to make your point.
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