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Sinn Féin Surges Ahead Sinn Féin victors Pat Doherty, Michelle Gildernew and Martin McGuiness are carried by supporters following the June 8 election in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin victors Pat Doherty, Michelle Gildernew and Martin McGuiness are carried by supporters following the June 8 election in Northern Ireland. By Kelly Candaele, Contributor On election day in Northern Ireland, David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly, was roughed up by Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) supporters as he approached the polling station. Tri...

Former newspaper boss Roy Greenslade has denied passing sensitive information to the IRA while a senior member of staff at the Sunday Times. Journalist David Leppard, who worked with him at the newspaper, has expressed fears that the 74-year-old shared unpublished details of security stories with his republican pals. But ex-Daily Mirror editor Greenslade, who counts senior Sinn Fein figure Pat Doherty among his closest friends, has rejected this, saying: "I categorically deny passing any information to the IRA at any time. I didn't have any information to pass on. I was an intellectual suppor...

Over a lengthy career in journalism Roy Greenslade has written millions of words. But a handful out of a 4,000-word article in the British Journalism Review (and The Sunday Times) explaining his support for Irish republicanism and the IRA have now cast a shadow over all that went before. In the piece, he talks about his friendship with Pat Doherty, who has been named in parliament as a former member of the Provisional IRA. He states: “From very early on in our friendship [with Doherty and his wife], we four found ourselves in complete agreement about the right of the Irish people to engage ...

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 neede...

After Greenslade’s declaration of support for the IRA, his high-minded media columns for the Guardian now look shabby.