Would that I were free to reveal such matters as the name of a well-known priest who once went to the IRA Army Council and asked that the IRA assassinate Paisley; or the name of the former British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who thinks the troops should be withdrawn; to say nothing of the Irish Cabinet Minister who thought that ‘had Brighton succeeded, it would have been greater than 1916’. Such revelations go a long way towards illustrating the real attitudes of people concerned with ‘the Troubles’.
