This veteran, who suffers from PTSD after his tours of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, attacks Iain Dale for covering Sinn Féin's victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. IainDale
The caller was offended by the normalisation of Sinn Féin's victory in the Assembly election, stating that "nobody's mentioned about Sinn Féin how they're murderers."
Sinn Féin were the political wing of the IRA during the Troubles, and their representatives were banned from British and Irish media at the time due to their association with bloodshed at the time. "Sinn Féin will always be murderers" Dave stated, to which Iain urged the caller to move on from the Troubles given there has been significant steps made towards peace in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
He went further to state that he "always refused to interview Sinn Féin politicians", having lost friends to the IRA, but he is trying to move forward given Sinn Féin now have a mandate as the largest party in Stormont. The caller was sticking by his comments, stating that "politics or no politics", he still thought Sinn Féin were murderers.
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