Herald Gets It Wrong…….Again!
Following a shooting in the Blanchardstown area on March 27th a certain media outlet tripped over itself in its rush to apportion blame to republicans. Not for the first time have the Evening Herald and its ‘journalist’ Cormac Byrne engaged in this spurious reporting only to be contradicted by that annoying thing called fact. Previously at a shooting in Finglas, in which two cousins were attacked, Byrne and the Herald again chose to promote a tabloid headline without reference to an iota of fact.
But more sinister is the motive behind these blatant lies. The agenda seeks to manipulate armed confrontation between the IRA and criminal elements in the Dublin area. Byrne also postulated that a mythical feud between the IRA and the INLA was behind the Blanchardstown attack. Added to this is the intervention of another Herald ‘journalist’, the retired garda Gerry O’Carroll’ who dangerously speculated that the IRA were preparing to target members of the Gardai.
The press has a pivotal and important role to play in society. It also has an onerous responsibility to print facts above and beyond biased speculation. The ramblings of the likes of Byrne and O’Carroll negate that responsibility and expose a very clear anti-republican agenda wherein only imaginary muckraking passes for journalism.
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