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NI: McAliskey's Assassin not Censored

01 September 1993

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Although the BBC sees fit to replace Bernadette McAliskey's voice with subtitles (see Statewatch July/August 1993) it has no qualms about broadcasting the voice of Ray Smallwood who was convicted for attempting to murder her in 1981. Smallwood appeared in a Spotlight documentary which looked at the current loyalist campaign against Gaelic Athletic Association premises. Loyalist groups have declared that when it comes to murder targets it is now "pan season" in terms of "pan-nationalism". Civil servants involved in cross-border co-operation, including the Maryfield Secretariat for the Anglo-Irish Agreement, have been specifically threatened by the UFF. Smallwood appeared in the Spotlight programme as a spokesperson for the Ulster Democratic Party. McAliskey said afterwards, "I was sickened when he appeared on that programme. It was as if my life didn't matter.... If the shoe had been on the other foot and a republican appeared on the television after trying to kill a unionist politician, there would have been a whole furore about it."

Irish News 18.9.93

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