The Guardian apologises to Mairia Cahill over Greenslade columns
Earlier this year, Greenslade wrote an article describing himself as having “republican sympathies”. By Sean Murray Friday 14 May 2021, 4:57 PM May 14th 2021, 4:57 PM 14,477 Views 0 Comments
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THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER has today published an apology to Mairia Cahill over two articles written by its former columnist Roy Greenslade.
In its apology, the Guardian said that Greenslade “failed to disclose his support for the Provisional IRA” when he criticised a BBC Spotlight NI programme which covered the alleged sexual abuse of Mairia Cahill in the late 1990s.
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Máiría Cahill. Picture by Hugh Russell
THE Guardian newspaper has removed three articles by Roy Greenslade relating to Máiría Cahill from its website.
The decision was taken by the paper s global readers editor Elisabeth Ribbans, who acts as the media group s internal ombudsman.
She said: After the readers’ editor completed a review of this and two other articles by the same writer regarding Ms Cahill s case - one of which was also the subject of complaint - all three articles were removed.
The complaint was made after former columnist Mr Greenslade (74), who also worked for the Daily Mirror, Sun and Sunday Times, revealed further details of his support for the IRA s armed campaign and said he had been a past contributor to An Phoblacht.
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