Sinn Fein walks an excruciating line between McAuley the hero and McAuley the villain
FORKED TONGUE: Mary-Lou McDonald is right about Ireland’s lenient sentencing regime, but Sinn Féin – having previously campaigned for his early release – has a breath-taking cheek to say Pearse McAuley deserves a longer sentence for failing to kill someone than the sentence he served for actually succeeding in killing someone.