RTE Radio One Today with Pat Kenny Sept 20 2011 - Martin McGuinness Irish presidential election - separate interviews with Ed Moloney, Danny Morrison

Kenny interviews journalist Ed Moloney and Belfast writer Danny Morrison about Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness who was standing in the southern Irish presidential election. Moloney refused to appear with Morrison, who is a critic of Moloney's directorship of the 'Boston Tapes' project, that has led to arrests by police in Northern Ireland. This is due to worthless guarantees of confidentiality given to opponents of Sinn Féin, taped for the project about their IRA activities during the 'Troubles'. After Moloney published taped statements from a former IRA volunteer who had died, Northern Irish police successfully obtained some of the project tapes from a US court. That has led to the arrest of leading Irish republicans, Ivor Bell and Gerry Adams. Morrison mentions Moloney's refusal to debate when the interviewer comes back to Morrison after interviewing Moloney.

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