Party’s spin makes for deeper problems

Tom Kelly sees parallels between British spin in Iraq over prisoners and the current Sinn Fein and IRA crisis. He beleives that Sinn Fein have made a huge mistake in trying to spin it’s way out of danger right from the beginning of the McCartney crisis: “…they ask us to forget the sickening spectacle on the night after the murder when Sinn FÃ©in appeared on our television screens blaming the savage attack on ‘knife culture’ and condemned the PSNI for using the murder as an excuse to harass the people of the Markets”.