A chara, – Two brief points. The first was put forcefully to me by the late Tony Gregory. That was that while he could never get the Garda to come when open drug dealing was obvious in inner-city flat complexes, the same areas were saturated with gardaí when Concerned Parents became active. Why?
The second is my own experience. Whenever I attended any event remotely connected with the “Troubles”, there was always a plainclothes Garda presence, however small the attendance. And anyone not known to the Gardawas inevitably questioned. Now it appears men known and proven to be totally ruthless operate without even superficial surveillance. Why the difference? – Is mise,
BRENDAN RYAN,
Montenotte,
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