Member

In 1983, McFarlane led the Maze Prison escape of 38 IRA inmates, during which an innocent prison officer died. He went on the run, but he recently ran out of road and now faces the justice of God. Yet, at his funeral, Sinn Féin leaders eulogised McFarlane without one scintilla of remorse, as if he were a hero of republicanism. Gerry “never in the IRA” Adams helped to carry the coffin at the funeral, which was also attended by the Sinn Féin North Belfast MP, John Finucane, who in the past often claimed to have a concern to get justice for innocent victims of terrorism; his presence at McFarlane’s funeral was a strange way of showing his concern for the innocent victims of terror on the Shankill Road. Of course, the victims were only Protestant.