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Irish Echo editorial: Pin-drop coverage of Cory

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

Such an event, at least, would be expected to spawn a few headlines.
The death of innocent people as a result of law enforcement, and even top-level government collusion, would appear to be worthy of none.
With the honorable exception of the Boston Herald — and if there are others we would be glad to hear of them — the American press seems to have forgotten the Irish peace process during one of its admittedly many crisis moments.
The most commonly reported component of both the Troubles and peace process in recent days has been the IRA, but this only in the context of reports and editorials on the Madrid terror bombings.
The open discord between the U.S. State Department’s Northern Ireland envoy, Dr. Mitchell Reiss, and Sinn F

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