David Norris (Independent)

To hear a young historian say the mistake was that they did not finish them off is repulsive in the extreme. I could hardly believe what I was hearing. The ethos that operated in 1921 in Offaly is the same ethos that has operated in the Border counties, and it must be wiped out.

However, I do not share Senator Harris's optimism about the success of the Italian police with the Mafia. It has not happened, although I wish it would. The Mafia is not the only group. There is also the Camorra and the other group with the unpronounceable name whose tentacles have reached into Berlin. They are very powerful and, like the IRA, they have not gone away. I wish they had.

It was also said in that programme that the Pearson girls were very aggressive. Is that really the case? When 32 armed and dangerous louts break in, having shot their two brothers——