A response from Brian Anson to today's May Day blog on Martin McGuinness

A RESPONSE TO PAUL’S BLOG ON JACK JONES & MARTIN McGUINNESS.

I agree with everything Paul has written. The worrying, and sad, possibility is that the threat to Martin McGuinness could become a replay of the Michael Collins tragedy in 1922.
Collins who, almost single-handedly, had created the Republican Army, was a good man. I don’t believe he was right to sign the Treaty which partitioned Ireland, but I do believe that he did it in good faith believing that it was a crucial step towards the unification of the country, a goal which he believed would come, by force or negotiation, soon after The Treaty. There was a certain logic in his thinking: The Republic had been fighting to free it’s entire country: The Treaty left just six counties to free. Collins was not a politician, he was a freedom fighter. Who knows what the history of Ireland would have been during the past century had this genuine Republican fighter not been assassinated by his former comrades? Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....