Guardian Journalist admits to being IRA sympathiser.

I was wondering when someone would bring this up. The silence from it’s readership on here has been deafening.

Well why am I not surprised?

I’m trying to find links from publications that aren’t right wing to see what his views actually were (I’m not disputing them, I’d just rather not wade through screeds of anti-left nonsense). Does anyone have any articles they can point me in the direction of?

Ex columnist for the Guardian GrannyGravy13 - columnist not news reporter, and no columns since last March?

I think he was described as a news pundit
I find it surprising (or not) that if this was a news pundit from the Daily Mail of thread would be 300+ posts............

Greenslade also worked for the Evening Standard, the Sun and the Telegraph at various times.

He also worked for the Daily Express.

Did you read that in the Mail GrannyGravy13, it sounds exactly the sort of language they would use? I’m not defending the Guardian, but I do like accurate information.

And The Sunday Times.

It looks like the Mail was about the only national paper he didn't work for at some stage.

By the way GrannyGravy I was a bit confused because a unionist in the Irish context is a loyalist to the British crown.

Sorry it was on breakfast news yesterday and today, I haven’t read online or physical newspapers for several weeks.

Isn't he allowed to be on the IRA's "side" ? I thought we were all allowed differing opinions about politics .I've always believed the UK government had no place in Ireland and that it should be united ....coming from an Irish background and knowing the history it seems the right thing for the ISLAND of Ireland to be united .It should never have been partitioned

It was reported on GMB this morning that he supported the bombing campaign, which I find abominable.

AmberSpyglass This seems to be what has triggered this now:

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/mairia-cahill-accuses-roy-greenslade-of-demonising-her-over-ira-rape-claim-40147500.html

The Spectator ran a story about Maira Cahill, who claims Greenslade demonised her.

His support for IRA bombing is a proxy for his feud with Cahill, but it makes a good headline!

Incidentally, three cheers for Keir Starmer who, as DPP, ordered a review into the Cahill case and absolved her of all blame. I wonder if that was mentioned on GMB.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ir%C3%ADa_Cahill

I agree with you paddyanne. I too an part Irish.

However, believing that island of Ireland should be coterminous poitically as well as topographically, does not mean that I have not always condemned and abhorred the violence between the two sides. And both sides should be equally condemned for the violence.

This isn't about Greenslade's support for Irish Republicans, which has apparently been known about for some time. It's about his criticism of a TV documentary featuring Maira Cahill, who was raped by an IRA member while she herself worked for Sinn Fein. Greenslade was one of the Guardian's media critics and said that the documentary was one-sided. Cahill claimed that his criticism was coloured by his support for the IRA. The Spectator has just written an article about it.

Yes many of us here in England, have an Irish background. I believe in a united Ireland, but never, never in a million years could I support the idea of terrorism being used to achieve that end.

TerriBull

Yes many of us here in England, have an Irish background. I believe in a united Ireland, but never, never in a million years could I support the idea of terrorism being used to achieve that end.

But that's not what has triggered the backlash against Greenslade.

It makes one wonder if somebody is trying to stir up the Irish troubles again:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56246848

growstuff it was known Greenslade supported a united Ireland. It was his support for violence that has led to the understandable reaction to his views.

What people are making clear in their posts, is that support for a united Ireland is not the same as a support for violence and in stepping across this line Greenslade has rightly become a pariah.

MOnica So why is it news now?

I am well aware that support for a united Ireland isn't the same as support for violence. That isn't the issue here.