A CONSERVATIVE councillor has branded a former newspaper editor’s comments “sick” and “disgusting”. Roy Greenslade, who has a home in Brighton and previously edited the Daily Mirror, announced he believed the IRA bombings were “justified” in an article for the March edition of the British Journalism review. In the early hours of October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb was detonated at The Grand hotel on Brighton seafront during the Conservative Party’s conference, killing five and injuring dozens of others.
Five people were killed in the IRA blast Conservative councillor for Hangleton and Knoll, Dawn Barnett, who remembers the horrific day well, said she is disgusted with Mr Greenslade’s comments.
A former Fleet Street editor and journalism lecturer could lose his university post after he revealed his unapologetic support for bombing campaigns carried out by the IRA.
Roy Greenslade, who edited the Daily Mirror and held a top job at The Sun, secretly wrote for the republican newsletter An Phoblacht and even provided bail surety for an IRA man accused of involvement in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
While his republican views first emerged some years ago, he has now come out of hiding in an article for the British Journalism Review to say he was in complete agreement about the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle , adding: I supported the use of physical force.
Boris Johnson outright condemns Roy Greenslade, his official spokesman said today, after he the former Guardian columnist revealed his long-held support for the IRA s murderous bombing campaigns before resigning from his honorary professorship.
Roy Greenslade, who edited the Daily Mirror and held a top job at The Sun, secretly wrote for the republican newsletter An Phoblacht and even provided bail surety for an IRA man accused of involvement in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
While his republican views first emerged some years ago, he came out of hiding in an article this weekend for the British Journalism Review to say he was in complete agreement about the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle , adding: I supported the use of physical force.
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