YOUNG GAA PLAYERS ATTACKED

[cornafean]

I dunno what your point is there Cornafean.but my point is that it was total hypocrisy on the State and the State broadcasters behalf that was banning its fellow country men from Sinn Fein and its type on to the airwaves but at the same time when the British establishment was involved as much terrorist activity in Northern Ireland and the Republic(Dublin and Monaghan Bombings) but there was never an airwave ban put on them.Do you see my point?

I do see your point and there certainly was an element of hypocrisy involved. That said, I don't think there was ever much danger of the likes of Jack Hermon successfully using RTE as a tool to tempt gullible youngsters in the South to enlist for the RUC or MI5. The authorities in the South did feel that the presence of Sinn Fein on RTE would attract new recruits to the IRA, so in those respects there were good reasons for the ban, and the hypocrisy. Whether at this stage the benefit of hindsight justifies or undermines those reasons is really a matter for historians to ponder.

[aroundincircles]

A west brit that boy is.