Scandalous

"I'm not a pacifist," Gerry Adams informed the shocked viewing public, who might have been fooled into believing that the 1970s hokum - the Gospels not being eye-witness accounts and all that sort of thing - peddled by those whom Channel Four had conveniently lined up for him to interview was somehow objective, uncontested, or even terribly respectable these days.

Adams maintained that he remained in the Catholic Church in Ireland despite all the scandals. Well, bully for him. At least the goings on that he presumably had in mind, and which need to be seen in the context of almost everyone in the Irish Republic's education by the Church (have they all turned out like that?), involved breaches of the rules of the organisation in question, the Catholic Church. Whereas Adams's activities were precisely the purposes for which his organisation existed. And in view of his covering up for his brother, would an Irish priest with that sort of record be allowed on air?

All this, and we have not even begun to discuss the role of Channel Four in promoting sexual relations between men and teenage boys.