Focus is elsewhere

DEVELOPMENTS north of the necessary border between ‘them and us’ clearly indicates that Sinn Féin is an entity concerned solely with what is going on in Northern Ireland.

Its ill-considered rise in this Republic is ignored by our electorate when the issues which matter surely lie with the hard men who will not go away.

Sinn Féin’s involvement in local politics at grassroots level here is but a distraction from what they are all about – the eventual subjugation of the whole island – but first and foremost is the belief that war in the North is always an option should the IRA not get its own way.

Even t he most amateur SF observer/fifth columnist can see that this shambolic organisation is breaking apart at the seams, no matter how many votes they may garner from the decent-yet- sometimes-hoodwinked Irish voters who can mix up the difference between patriotism and the corrupted version of Sinn Féin’s brand of republicanism.

Mr Adams, TD for Louth, has little business here in our long- established independent State when he and his fellow Dáil SF colleagues are equally obsessed with what is going on in Northern Ireland. Many wish they would make the short trip, if only to see how they would get on with those who are not afraid of them, politically speaking of course. ROBERT SULLIVAN,

Bantry, Co. Cork.