Justine McCarthy has an interesting piece on Dónal de Róiste in The Irish Times on Saturday. It’s about how he was fired from the Defence Forces.
Close to the end of the article she quotes from a fellow officer of Dónals at the time, Paddy Walsh and this paragraph is revealing:
‘Donal was a passenger in a car driven by a drunken officer the previous October that hit and seriously injured a young female teacher,”he says.
“There was a Garda investigation and Dónal was going to testify that he had to take the car keys to stop him driving but the investigation mysteriously stopped.
I believe that’s why it happened. Somebody needed Dónal to be silenced.”
It happened five decades ago. Unfortunately these things happen today too and no doubt the army is no exception.
That’s why it’s so important that people make it their business to speak out, tell the world, speak truth to power.
No organisation should be allowed behave in such a manner.
It’s so easy to apologise for historical wrong doings. The challenge is never to tolerate wrong doing, never cover up, never attempt to protect culprits, even your colleagues. Never.
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