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Alan Rusbridger s damning silence about Roy Greenslade
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We trace the connections between the terrorist group and a prominent journalist
5 March 2021 • 8:47pm
Roy Greenslade has revealed that while working at the heart of Fleet Street he had been secretly devoted to the paramilitary cause
The IRA weapons dump at a remote spot in the Welsh countryside was thought to be intended for a Christmas bombing campaign on the British mainland.
In the autumn of 1989 the
Sunday Times had heard that police were keeping watch on the secret cache but, with the agreement of Scotland Yard, had chosen not to publish details of its existence. The authorities needed more time.
Almost exactly 21 years ago, I wrote a piece in the Spectator magazine alleging that Roy Greenslade, a prominent and respected columnist for The Guardian newspaper, had strong sympathies for the Irish Republican movement which he had never publicly admitted.
This was, I believe, the first time anyone had pointed out Greenslade s dubious connections. I mentioned his association with Pat Doherty, who was for many years a member of the Provisional IRA army council.
Two days ago, the Sunday Times published a lengthy piece by Greenslade, taken from a journalism quarterly, in which he unapologetically admitted his lifelong support for the IRA and its violent methods.