AS reverberations over the Sinn Fein election victory continue in the North, a surprising interview with Ballymurphy Wilson, took place on RTE — the Southern radio network which has banned Sinn Fein from the airwaves.
On the Day by Day programme, Fr. Wilson said the British government nical' in Northern Ireland and would have to go.
He thought that it was just a sophism to that while the Provisionals could never lose, they could never win either.
'I think they can win. The British government is an evil governmct as lal astne peopiem lne wortn wao nave lo watch people suffering from it are concerned. It must now be removed from the schene. Ine question is how? Obviously it is not going to respond to anything except a lot of force.
The interviewer stepped in to ask whether the Loyalists would resist. Fr. although 'the Protestant minority in Ireland was the most heavily armed, the most clearly organised protected minority in Europe', convinced that a rising against any new arrangement could be prevented.
He disagreed that the recent high vote for Sinn rein was a violence, violence had to be reintepreted.
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