Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have met former members of Sinn Féin, some of whom were combatants, who would acknowledge that what went on was wrong, in hindsight and who would say that the greatest problem that the Sinn Féin leadership has is that it will not acknowledge that what went on was wrong, for too long. Many RUC officers were murdered in appalling circumstances, in very cowardly circumstances-----

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