I had hoped that my BLOG of 16th November “THE IRISH TIMES AND THE BURIAL OF KEVIN BARRY” which reproduced an article by Manus O’Riordan which appeared in The Irish Political Review in December 2016 would cause the immediate demise of the dastardly delusionary career of Fintan O’Toole and that it would be buried in the same pit as that of Eoghan Harris, Richard Pigott and Titus Oates.
But no luck, so far. That mendacious and meretricious career is proving as reluctant as was the Mad Monk Rasputin to surrender to a cyanide laced cake, a broadside of lead or sink under the ice of the Nevka River in December 1916.
For in January 2012 The Irish Political Review carried another article by Manus O’Riordan which should have buried O’Toole, Crook, Lying and Stinker,
It was headed ST FINTAN’S WIDGERY HIT BY A WELL-DESERVED BELT OF A CROZIER .
The Crozier Manus invoked was not a member of the Catholic Hierarchy but Brigadier Frank P Crozier, the first Commander of the RIC Auxiliaries, who had resigned in protest at the behaviour of that force, behaviour which was being urged on it by the British Cabinet, Winston Churchill in particular.
Crozier wrote a number of books, and in one “A Word to Gandhi: The Lesson of Ireland” (1931) he devotes a full chapter to Bloody Sunday 1920, dismissing as lies the British reports put out about the occurrences on that day in Dublin.
Manus O’Riordan’s article opens up with a long WIKIPEDIA entry on Lord Widgery, which includes Lord Savile’s report which demolished Widgery’s report on the Bloody Sunday murders in DERRY in 1972, The entry concludes “As a result of the Saville Report, even supporters who are the natural supporters of the Army now regard Widgery as discredited – the conservative historian and commentator Max Hastings has described the Widgery as a “shameless cover up”.
Then Manus asks “But what are we to make of someone who seeks to ‘Widgeryise’ an earlier Bloody Sunday? The worst historical offences of the Irish Times are not always to be found in the paper itself. Its Assistant Editor, Fintan O’Toole, is from time to time employed by THE OBSERVER to ‘educate’ the ‘thinking’ British public on Anglo-Irish relations. He was at his most obsequious on the occasion of the British Queen’s visit last May”. Manus quotes Fintan’s “At Last, Britain and Ireland Have Grown Up”
A fortnight previously, Manus tells us , Fintan’s “Observer” piece asked “Can The Queen Win Over Croke Park?” and in it O’Toole referred to the shooting dead in that Park of spectators and players by Crown Forces on BLOODY SUNDAY in 1920.
“O’Toole’s ‘essay’ had opined more than informed” Manus tells us, “He gratuitously introduced a Widgery perspective that British Imperialism itself been too ashamed to sustain beyond the immediate aftermath of the 1920 massacre.”
For O’Toole suggested that the lies put out by Dublin Castle in 1920 and broadcast to the world were true. “A loathsome suggestion” said Manus.
Manus was a committed champion of fair play, a concept foreign to O’Toole’s gamesmanship.
He was scrupulous and untiring in establishing facts. And he frequently had strong differences of opinion and voiced them without disparaging those who differed from him.
Could anybody claim that Fintan O’Toole understands the English concept of CRICKET, or our own ancestral code of COTHROM NA FEINNE?
I speak for myself as I say, NI CHEAPAIM, NI CHEAPAIM.
You’ll appreciate, I hope, both “NI”s.
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