An interesting paragraph in The Paper Wall by Ian Kenneally attributed to the London Times 1920 (I'd like to see the issue to confirm this).
While critical of Sinn Fein and the IRA for their actions, the Times had a few words to say about Government forces after the murders at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday
"...an Army already perilously undisciplined, and a police force avowedly beyond control have defiled, by heinous acts, the reputation of England; while the Government, who are the trustees of that reputation, are not free from suspicion of dishonourable connivance."
The paragraph could equally be applied to the deaths at Bachelors Walk, the murders undertaken during the Easter Rising and activities in Northern Ireland from partition onwards.
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