Sinn Fein accused of 'total hypocrisy'

Allow me to express my anger about Saturday’s bomb outrage which almost claimed the lives of three young innocent children.

And forgive me for venting anger at the total hypocrisy of Sinn Fein and their crocodile tears.

They, with their selective memories and re-writing of history, would do well to recall a cold and wintry Saturday night/Sunday morning in November 1976 when another senseless booby trap bomb exploded in a house in Mary Street, about 200 yards away from Saturday's despicable blast.

That 1976 bomb claimed the life of a bubbly young school-girl, Philomena Green (aged 16), and seriously injured two other girls.

Those who planted that bomb did not care who they killed or hurt; and those bombers of 1976 were no less "void of any social or political responsibility" than those of today.

Making their way home from a disco or "hop" as we used to call them then, one of the three girls saw a light in her father's house and - as her parents had separated - she and her two friends went in to check as they knew the man was supposed to be in hospital. Love and compassion took the three of them through the front door – narrow-minded Provisionalism almost killed all three.

Showing itself "void of any social or political responsibility" Sinn Fein did not condemn that bombing.

Indeed, as I remember, in a Provo propaganda-sheet at the time, Sinn Fein and the Provos tried to shift the blame for Philomena's death away from themselves and onto a local priest. How convenient and how sickening.

It meant SF or the Provos didn’t have to justify placing a large booby trap bomb in the middle of a narrow street full of occupied houses in the first place.

SF are only hypocrites. Unfortunately, today's extremists are merely following the example and tactics of those whom the Provos and SF still glorify today.

If O'Dowd, Adams and McGuinness, want condemnation of the Kilmaine Street attack to be taken seriously, then it’s time they publicly and totally rejected those responsible for the atrocity which was Mary Street and others like it.