23 September 1999 Edition
Back issue: Collusion - Dublin's role ignored
Less than a week after the London/Dublin Intergovernmental Conference met, yet more channels of information from British military forces to loyalist paramilitaries have been uncovered. The RUC admission of more leaks, supposedly from Dunmurray RUC Barracks, the files on South Armagh nationalists passed to the UVF from another Belfast RUC barracks and on Wednesday night the revelation that the Sun newspaper in London had received a list of nine Derry nationalists, have added fuel to the fire which Gerry Collins and Peter Brooke failed to dampen down when they met in Dublin.
Lost in the political toing and froing of the past week has been the shameful role of the 26-County government in its continuing and undisturbed supply of information to the very forces it criticises.
The now daily revelations of the countless instances of information being passed to loyalist paramilitaries from their uniformed colleagues in the RUC and UDR have confirmed the republican assertion that what we have been seeing is but the tip of the iceberg.
On Friday 15 September Brooke and Collins and their entourage, including RUC Chief Hugh Annesley and Garda Commissioner Eugene Crowley, rushed to steer the Hillsborough ship away from what some are saying is the biggest peril it has met in four years.
Lost in the political toing and froing of the past week has been the shameful role of the 26-County government in its continuing and undisturbed supply of information to the very forces it criticises.
The now daily revelations of the countless instances of information being passed to loyalist paramilitaries from their uniformed colleagues in the RUC and UDR have confirmed the republican assertion that what we have been seeing is but the tip of the iceberg.
On Friday 15 September Brooke and Collins and their entourage, including RUC Chief Hugh Annesley and Garda Commissioner Eugene Crowley, rushed to steer the Hillsborough ship away from what some are saying is the biggest peril it has met in four years.