Prominent journalist forced to resign from university post following IRA support revelation
Veteran British journalist, Roy Greenslade, has been effectively forced to resign from his post at City, University of London, after he made a frank admission of his support for the Irish Republican cause.
Guardian columnist Greenslade first made a full and frank admission in an article this weekend for the British Journalism Review, in which he wrote about “his complete agreement about the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle”.
Greenslade followed through with an article in the Sunday Times (February 28), entitled: “I cheered on the IRA [Irish Republican Army] from Fleet Street – you just didn’t hear about it”.
This was an allusion to the high point of Greenslade’s journalism career in the 1980s and 1990s, when he worked for establishment giants like the Sun and the Sunday Times, before becoming editor of the Daily Mirror in 1990.
Greenslade has admitted that during this period he secretly wrote for the Republican newspaper An Phoblacht where he set out staunchly pro-IRA positions.
Greenslade, 74, who is now a member of Sinn Féin, wrote in the Sunday Times article that he first got involved in the Irish Republican movement shortly after Bloody Sunday in January 1972, when British paratroopers shot dead 13 peaceful demonstrators in Derry.
The campaign to get Greenslade removed from City, University of London (where he lectured in ethics until 2018 before becoming a guest speaker) was spearheaded by the Daily Mail which provocatively accused the journalist of supporting “IRA terror attacks”.
The campaign even attracted the attention of Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who has reportedly “outright” condemned Greenslade’s views.
The furore surrounding Greenslade’s revelations comes at a sensitive time in Northern Ireland where the Irish Unity movement is gaining ground in the immediate post-Brexit era.
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