Mick Fealty on October 23, 2003, 12:00 am | Readers 0
Tony Blair official spokesman’s remarks on the debacle of Tuesday appeared on the No 10 website yesterday:
We found ourselves in a slightly absurd position at the moment because we knew that yesterday’s act of decommissioning by the IRA was a significant one, but we had yet to be able to use a form of words to convey that sense to lay people. Essentially, that was the conundrum which we had to cut through.
A case of knowledge that is trapped in the dark is useless. Thanks again to the Broom.
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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