The Broom of Anger blog has the transcript of a letter published in the Andersonstown News yesterday from the rector of Clonard Monastry in the Lower Falls area of Belfast alleging the paper had wrongly asserted that a Real IRA activist had spent two nights within the confines of the monastry. This follows an controversy earlier this year involving the paper in a row over a columnist’s accusations in the US based Irish Echo newspaper. Addendum: We have tried to dig the original story up online, but without success – if anyone has the appropriate link, perhaps you could forward it. However the paper has published another story (subs needed), which now says that two named individuals only visited the monastry.
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