You may have missed the furore engulfing the former editor and journalist Roy Greenslade last week. That would be understandable, because despite most of the British and Northern Ireland Press running the story since last Sunday, few from the Irish media, until yesterday, reported it.
Greenslade, in a column for the British Journalism Review, disclosed that he lived a secret double life as an IRA supporter and wrote articles under a pseudonym for the republican paper An Phoblacht while simultaneously working for the British and Irish media.
He has now become a member of Sinn Fein.
In a rambling, misty-eyed piece, he said he wished to explain to his grandchildren why he was a republican, while also writing about his support for use of physical force .
You may have missed the furore engulfing the former editor and journalist Roy Greenslade last week. That would be understandable, because despite most of the British and Northern Ireland press running the story since last Sunday, few from the Irish media, until yesterday, reported it.
Greenslade, in a column for the British Journalism Review, disclosed that he lived a secret double life as an IRA supporter and wrote articles under a pseudonym for the republican paper An Phoblacht while simultaneously working for the British and Irish media.
He has now become a member of Sinn Féin.
In a rambling, misty-eyed piece, he said he wished to explain to his grandchildren why he was a republican, while also writing about his support for use of physical force .
You may have missed the furore engulfing the former editor and journalist Roy Greenslade last week. That would be understandable, because despite most of the British and Northern Ireland Press running the story since last Sunday, few from the Irish media, until yesterday, reported it.
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