I find it hard to take what McIntyre says seriously, not because he has an axe to grind – who doesn’t when it comes to the North or the Provos? – but because he doesn’t seem to have any positive political agenda of his own, just pure cynicism. Some of the Fourthwrite people were trying to develop a non-militarist, left-wing critique of the Adams/SF strategy; Tommy McKearney is still promoting that kind of line; but McIntyre doesn’t seem to stand for anything much these days. He also seems to want to have his cake and eat it, constantly putting the boot into Adams for selling out, while also saying that the armed struggle was a waste of time and should have ended much sooner than it did. Hard to take what he says about the Bloody Sunday soldiers very seriously with that in mind.
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