Maíria Cahill with Micheál Martin lurking in the background. Suitably enough (Íomhá: Gerry Mooney / Irish Independent)
Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, has recently sought vindication for what she regards as unfair treatment at the hands of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army – and Sinn Féin – during the late 1990s and early 2000s. She has convincingly argued that her complaints of a series of sexual assaults at the hands of prominent member of the (P)IRA in 1997 were subject to an inadequate military investigation followed by an internal cover-up. I have already made clear my own belief in her claims, even when one takes into account the distorted spinning of Ireland’s generally anti-republican newspapers, both nationally and regionally. Yes, there is some confusion in the sequence of events, as well contradictory statements, but the…
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