Posted on March 12, 2012 by williampoole
There was an extraordinary article written in the Independent by Stephen Glover today.
In it, he exposed Guardian media blogger Roy Greenslade, as not simply a Republican sympathiser, but as a man with long standing links to Sinn Fein.
The implication of the piece was that Greenslade’s denial of IRA involvement in a recent murder was too well informed, ie that Greenslade is actively involved in Sinn Fein, and therefore fully up to speed with the operations of the IRA.
Glover went on to detail Greenslade’s connections
“Few people are aware that The Guardian’s media sage has affiliations with Sinn Fein. During the late 1980s, when he was managing news editor of The Sunday Times, he secretly wrote for An Phoblacht, the Sinn Fein newspaper, which then served as a propaganda sheet for the Provisional IRA. His pseudonym was George King. We know this from Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, a Guardian colleague and instigator of the journalistic investigation into phone hacking. When Mr Greenslade reviewed Mr Davies’s book on his blog in 2008, he did not deny what some may regard as a pretty serious allegation. In a more recent blog, he described Mr Davies as his friend.
The connections endure. Last June, Mr Greenslade spoke at a Sinn Fein conference in London on the 30th anniversary of the hunger strikes, and he wrote an article on the same subject for An Phoblacht . He has had a house in County Donegal for many years. One friend is Pat Doherty, from 1988 until 2009 vice president of Sinn Fein, who has been named as a former member of the IRA Army Council.”
Greenslade, of course, is the “mainstream” journalist who promoted his friend and fellow Donegal resident Phil MacGiollabhain’s website after the Hugh Dallas affair.
Phil has mentioned Greenslade on no less than six occasions on his blog.
What are their connections? Is it simply a shared love of Celtic Football Club, or something far more sinister?
I think we should be told.
Bill
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