Sir: My congratulations to Peregrine Worsthorne on his excellent article
and, more importantly, on being one of the few journalists or commentators (if not the only one) to question the motives of Republic of Ireland governments for retaining Articles 2 and 3, supporting the IRA in their deter- mination to retain their huge arsenal and refusing to take effective security measures against their terrorism.
The only people to have made any real gains over the past 20-30 years are not John Hume or Gerry Adams and his thugs, but successive Republic of Ireland govern- ments. They have acquired more and more say in and control over the internal affairs of Northern Ireland, to the point where their foreign minister, the obnoxious Dick Spring, struts around Stormont Castle, issu- ing his orders and making his demands as if he were in charge. Republic of Ireland gov- ernments have been given and have assumed considerable power over our lives without their having to bear any electoral or financial responsibility.
The Republic of Ireland's aim is the establishment of powerful, institutionalised and well-funded cross-border bodies, on which Irish Nationalists (the Republic of Ireland government and nationalists from Northern Ireland) would have the greater voice but which would be financed by the British Exchequer!
Such an outcome won't satisfy Sinn Fein/IRA, but having achieved their goal on the backs of the IRA terrorists, will the Republic of Ireland government be able to get the evil genie back into the bottle? Barbara A. Finney
2 Fort Road, Dundonald, Belfast
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