British Labor Leaders

wendy lyon ruadh at hooked.net
Fri Jan 1 13:39:37 PST 1999


Tom Lehman wrote:


> The whole deal in Ireland is beyond me. The Sand's business was ugly. I was
> told that Sands was a Protestant who wanted peace.

Someone was pulling your chain. Bobby Sands was Catholic and the leader of his local unit of the Provisional IRA.

This doesn't in any way justify his treatment in prison, of course.

wendy



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